Amusingly, I will push back that your take is equally strange. The point is clearly on a pattern of programming. Yes, programming is often creating tools that will have states. That is somewhat banal and doesn't help.
Now, I fully grant that there can easily be an explosion of states. I still find it odd to see so much pushback to trying to force a limit on the number of states that we want to support on a UI. We seem to want to allow any number of inner states to transition on a page at any time, and then we wonder at the complexity of the interfaces that we have built up.
Now, I fully grant that there can easily be an explosion of states. I still find it odd to see so much pushback to trying to force a limit on the number of states that we want to support on a UI. We seem to want to allow any number of inner states to transition on a page at any time, and then we wonder at the complexity of the interfaces that we have built up.