React actually has a little-known "same element reference" optimization. If your component returns the exact same JSX element reference in the same spot in consecutive renders, React will bail out of rendering that subtree, regardless of whether or not the child component is wrapped in `React.memo()`. This allows the parent component to control the behavior. So yes, `useMemo` would be how you do that:

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