i don't understand what dehydration is...

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did you ever tried to use $state in other methods of field or get component's field's state? This dehydrateStateUsing() will change initial state of the field. For example, you're showing in a different format for user, but when you accessing this state, you just getting modified (maybe you need to add prefix) version