I've been using hooks full-time for the last year or so in a _very large_ React code base (one of the largest in the world). None of these so-called problems ar

I've been using hooks full-time for the last year or so in a _very large_ React code base (one of the largest in the world). None of these so-called problems are real in my experience. The first point is just whining about not wanting to learn new things -- we've on-boarded many new people onto our team in this time, and hook-based code is the easiest to understand. It's the old class-based components that are hard, and the most experienced team members work there usually to rewrite them as functional components. The second point is only sort of true. They can interact with class-based components in a parent-child relationship. That's enough to gradually migrate your application towards hooks: any time you want to make significant changes to a component, rewrite it. The third point is not a problem in my experience. Yes, we have rewritten some of our internal libraries as a direct result of hooks being available, not because the old ones didn't work but because we now had the tools to create a _much better API_ and took advantage of it. The fourth point makes no sense to me. If you need to use conditions like that do something different, e.g. put the different cases ("a" vs "b") in different child components and render the appropriate one. Any programming paradigm has rules around it, and this is no different. My response to the fifth point is "don't depend on control flow". You should be robust to evaluation order so it doesn't matter the exact order that React executes your code. If you have a execution order dependency in your code it will be highly brittle.