I don't find this genius or beautiful, and it's especially disappointing coming from Misko Hevery. This is one of my favorite/most influential works by him http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/flaw-brittle-global-state-singletons/, and I think he was right then and so wrong now. The objection I have to this is the same objection I have to React hooks in general--they can only work by hidden back channels and code messing around in things it shouldn't be concerned with. So sad.