Make a froact.createRef() function that returns { current: Instance }
with the code:

type Ref = { current: Instance }
local function createRef(): Ref
    return froact.Roact.createRef()
end

As it turns out, you can do .current on Roact refs. We can type the ref property on Roblox instance components as { current: Instance } so that you'll never fuck up the type of refs ever!

We get the beautiful, absolutely amazing extravagance of branch-based luau type inference! This is absolutely invaluable.

oh, and while we're add it, add froact.useRef(hooks), instead of doing hooks.useMemo(froact.createRef(), {})