What I Stopped Doing in React Projects (and Why My Code Got Better)

I spent months building a production React platform that manages campaigns, customer conversations, and permissions across multiple organizations. Somewhere around the third month, I realized the code wasn't getting worse because I was doing too little — it was getting worse because I was doing too much. Writing maintainable React code isn't about following best practices. It's about knowing which practices to stop following. Here are five things I eliminated, and the measurable improvements t