The most fascinating thing about React Hooks is the perceived false dichotomy of hooks vs old class API. The old class API was pretty bad and could have been im

The most fascinating thing about React Hooks is the perceived false dichotomy of hooks vs old class API. The old class API was pretty bad and could have been improved without changing the paradigm. Take componentDidMount and cdUpdate: they could have been replaced by this.onMountOrUpdate(fn) : that would have both solved the ergonomic issues and allowed multiple event listeners to be set up by multiple custom 'component enhancers' (the equivalent of custom hooks). The market is ripe for a React like framework that keeps JSX and first class components but goes away with hooks in favour of a couple of event listeners and stuff like this.getContext(ContextName). Maybe also add MobX to easily solve state management. Vue is pretty close except JSX / first class components are an afterthought.