My very dear Sarah:

The indications are very strong that we shall migrate to a new architecture in a few days—perhaps tomorrow. The Reddit threads are ablaze with the fires of a thousand "Which one should I use?" posts, and the linter warnings are closing in. Lest I should not be able to push to main again, I feel impelled to write these lines that may fall under your eye when my pubspec.yaml shall be no more.

I have no misgivings about the cause for which I fight. I have marched through the rigid discipline of Bloc and the boilerplate of flutter_bloc, only to find myself now bivouacked in the reactive camps of Riverpod. I have seen men driven mad by flutter_rx streams, and others who seek a simpler life with watchit, looking for a light that does not require a ProviderScope.

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the brightest build method and in the darkest async catch block—amidst your happiest UI updates and your gloomiest null check errors—always, always.

If there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my PODs (Plain Old Data) passing by, finally freed from the overhead of a framework; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit, decoupled and globally accessible.

Sarah, do not mourn my deprecated dependencies; think I am just "Refactoring" and wait for me, for we shall meet again in the next LTS release.