If you have been working with React chances are you have worked with React.memo which is used to avoid unnecessary renders of a compoent which results in boosting the performance of that component.
Why we don't use React.memo in all our components to increase performance of compoents?
I know the answer but want to see how you think about this.
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We did this, to literally every component in our app. Hundreds if not thousands of them. We thought it was a great idea, and it never particularly bit us hard or anything. But looking back, it was mostly unnecessary.
Rendering a component is pretty cheap, so you have to weigh up the cost of rendering a component several times, vs the cost of comparing all of that component's props several times. Unless a component is pretty large and complex, the prop check will often just add extra overhead you didn't need to bother with.
In general: keep it simple, then add optimizations when you actually hit performance problems.