Let’s be serious for a moment. This probably won’t please everyone, but at some point we need to put the hype aside and focus on facts. We need to stop treating the NgRx team’s signalStore as the one sacred tool for state management in Angular. Yes, as we’ll see, signalStore has major strengths. But in practice, and with the way it is often promoted, things can go in the wrong direction. Why am I criticizing it? As the stats show, it keeps getting more popular, so more and more developers are using it and discovering it. There are lots of conference talks promoting it, which is great, but we also need to talk about its limits. signalStore has left very little room for new signal-based patterns to emerge, especially patterns that leverage the reactive nature of Signals and their deep Angular integration. It has almost become "the right way" to work with Signals, and that is unfortunate. It is marketed as an all-purpose Swiss Army knife, but what if it is not?…