It’s 2026. If you are still wrestling with !important overrides in Material UI or trying to hack the internal DOM structure of a Bootstrap component just to match a Figma design, you’re doing it the hard way.
It is 2025, and if you are still manually wrestling with dependency arrays in useEffect, or religiously wrapping every prop-passing arrow function in useCallback, you are working too hard.
The era of “janky” user interfaces is officially over. In the landscape of 2025, users—and their high-refresh-rate displays—have zero tolerance for blocked main threads. If your dashboard stutters when a user types into a filter input, you aren’t just losing frames; you’re losing trust.
If you’ve been writing React for the better part of a decade, you know the drill. You write a component, you realize a child is re-rendering unnecessarily, and you begrudgingly wrap a callback in useCallback or a calculation in useMemo. We’ve spent years micromanaging dependency arrays and fighting the “rules of hooks.”
