> and that state management is going to get to hardwired to the UI component library I don't really see how that's a different state of affairs than class-base

> and that state management is going to get to hardwired to the UI component library I don't really see how that's a different state of affairs than class-based components. You just do this if you wanted... const [thisState, setState] = useState({}); ...and its uses would generally be semantically identical to state-based stuff without hooks.