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imo RxJS is a cargo cult. the core idea imo is that if you have more nouns and less verbs then you have less stuff that goes wrong b/c there's less noun-verb interaction blowup. in practice however it becomes literal spaghetti code that masquerades as "it VERY big brain"

"panth developers report friction working with RxJS, including issues with learning the framework and reading, writing, and debugging RxJS-based code. This feedback has been repeated across teams, job functions, and tech levels, with even L5-6 engineers reporting friction."

"For a long time I thought that perhaps I simply didn't have enough practice/experience with RxJS, but after using it for quite some time, I still find that the way we use it in many places makes it orders of magnitude more difficult to read compared to a good old imperative"