Learning RxJS made me a better programmer faster than anything since the Gang of Four Design Patterns book 20 years ago.
One simple example is a scroll tracker. I needed to track a user’s scroll, determine the direction, and combine it with touch events.
I wrote a prototype using event handlers and the code descended into incomprehensible spaghetti pretty quickly. With RxJS I was able to implement it as a series of custom operators that were easy to write, test, and use.