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In React 18+, two `setState` calls inside a native `addEventListener` handler (attached manually via a ref, not React's synthetic event system) behave how, and why?

useEffect(() => { const el = ref.current; const onClick = () => { setA(a => a + 1); setB(b => b + 1); }; el.addEventListener('click', onClick); return () => el.removeEventListener('click', onClick); }, []);