This is interesting, what's the upside of working without HMR? There are changes where HMR fails to figure things out and you have to hard reload, but other than those it has served me very well otherwise. Interested in hearing the other side of the story, if there is one.
Hard reload takes marginally longer, but has no potential to fail - its peace of mind. I have had cases when small changes to dev tooling or maybe something in state management causes a failure during HMR reload. And if you dont realise this quickly enough, you might waste a lot more time than HMR saves you. As I said its still quite useful for working just on UI, so its not all bad, but ideally I prefer to work on UI components separately to the app anyway, eg using something like Storybook.
