I think the use of classes was just some sugar to help OO and Java people (like myself) into React components. They're not really classes in the useful sense,

I think the use of classes was just some sugar to help OO and Java people (like myself) into React components. They're not really classes in the useful sense, and I found my components littered with functions that returned blobs of JSX that felt too small to be factored into full "classes". Smaller function components and then adding state with `useState` has simplified my code.