After using hooks for a while, I have to disagree with most of your points. The issue is not clarity or simplicity, it's familiarity. Once you start actually us

After using hooks for a while, I have to disagree with most of your points. The issue is not clarity or simplicity, it's familiarity. Once you start actually using hooks, things make a ton of sense. It's a different way to think about components, not an inherently more-complex way. The order of hooks is only important insofar as they do not change between rendering. That's it. Hooks should always be called, and always in the same order. A basic React Hooks component has way less boilerplate involved than a class component does, and hooks allow for much better code architecture when it comes to separation of concerns.