My frustration with this is that it's completely unintuitive and doesn't read very well. Yes, you'll get used to it once you work with hooks enough, but at firs

My frustration with this is that it's completely unintuitive and doesn't read very well. Yes, you'll get used to it once you work with hooks enough, but at first glance, the empty array and the return value from the function passed to `useEffect` don't give me any useful information as to what the code is actually doing. It's an entirely React-specific abstraction that forces you to memorize a bunch of obtuse rules in order to use it effectively, as opposed to building on simpler primitives, which had previously always been the appeal of React.