My take away from hooks is that it is pushing toward making your components simpler. One of the gotchas of hooks is that it kind of "lies" in the way it looks.

My take away from hooks is that it is pushing toward making your components simpler. One of the gotchas of hooks is that it kind of "lies" in the way it looks. Take useRef or useState for example. These things are only defined one time even though the are declared in such a way to look like they are defined over and over again each render. They are actually key lookups under the hood. This was a main point of confusion for me initially and I'm sure I'll find out more that I assumed incorrectly as I go. Auto-magic sometimes is confusing to me.