flutter_hooks have been a good solution for us. I'm also a fan of signals or just plan old ValueNotifier/setState. Borrowing from the React community sounds like sacrilege to some Flutter devs, but there is a reason it has made declarative frameworks popular.

Currently in the process of ripping blocs out of a codebase. I quit engaging with the Flutter subreddit because if you dare mention that bloc isn't great and you don't need 100 layers of abstraction then you get a bunch of people screaming "scalability" at you. This guide just reinforces that.

My concern with it is was never the acronym they tried to use, but the extremely verbose app layers and then the inclusion of this “command pattern”. The example compass app is better example of over engineering than it is good architecture. Flutter should promote productivity instead of verbosity.