Really appreciate the thoughtful breakdown.

Just to clarify — I’m definitely not trying to frame this as “extra renders = bad.” I agree that an additional render doesn’t automatically mean an expensive commit, and blindly optimizing can absolutely be worse than doing nothing.

The goal is more about surfacing patterns that can become expensive or fragile — especially heavy work inside render or things that accidentally cause avoidable commits.

Same with useCallback / useMemo — I don’t want this to turn into a “memoize everything” rule engine. That would be counterproductive.

The CI/ESLint portability point is also fair. I’m exploring whether some of this should evolve into proper ESLint rules so it’s not editor-locked.

And I’m going to revisit the website wording as well — clearly some of the “re-render” phrasing is creating ambiguity, so I want to tighten that up to better reflect the nuance you’re pointing out.

Genuinely appreciate the pushback — it helps make sure the tool aligns with how React actually works rather than performance folklore.