This is kind of just explaining supply and demand. I would say a large proportion of React devs just want it to do the things they need and easily, and hooks ce

This is kind of just explaining supply and demand. I would say a large proportion of React devs just want it to do the things they need and easily, and hooks certainly aide them. Sure if you need to dig a little deeper then you find that hooks can be a warren of complexity - but nothing stops you from approaching the code directly to understand more (and you can still use classes). For me and my team we actually leverage the 'black box' nature of hooks for the good of the team. Senior members can write high level hooks that they understand and juniors can just use them in their components and not need to go too deep too soon.