Why don't stores automatically return refs? Curious of why pinia chose the 2-line useStore and storeToRefs pattern

[zachbryant]

When I first started reading the docs on getters, I fell into the trap of thinking state.myGetter is good enough. Definitely a noob mistake. I learned about storeToRefs and it hasn't stopped bothering me since. I haven't yet come across a scenario where refs or computeds weren't explicitly necessary. What I don't understand is, why this pattern? Why not default to returning refs instead of reactives from useStore calls? At least for how I'm using state, this pattern only ever feels in my way.

When I think of this 2-line pattern, I wonder why I'm not using a singleton pattern with refs instead?