The ironic thing is that hooks are marketed by the react docs as being the solution to avoiding the "difficulty" newbs have with classes. Which I (as a propone

The ironic thing is that hooks are marketed by the react docs as being the solution to avoiding the "difficulty" newbs have with classes. Which I (as a proponent of hooks) think is fucking batshit insane, and clearly shows the disconnect of the React devs from their user base. Teaching beginners how to code, and how to use React, is a large part of my job. And I can say with absolute conviction that the React team is wrong about this. The 'hooks' whiteboarding session has gotten me far more blank stares than the 'classes and lifecycles' one ever has. Having said that, as a senior dev with a ton of React projects under my belt, I definitely prefer the hooks paradigm after using it in a few projects. It makes for cleaner code, and certain concepts are much easier to reason about with the hooks model. Just don't ever expect it to give you a cleaner on-boarding process. That's not at all where the benefit lies, despite what the docs tell you.