I'm not sure what the problem is with using functional ideas as a justification? It feels like you're complaining about a sort of cultural appropriation. Funct

I'm not sure what the problem is with using functional ideas as a justification? It feels like you're complaining about a sort of cultural appropriation. Functional ideas are sometimes good, and they should be borrowed and used in nonfunctional contexts. Like continuation-passing-style got lifted and used to inspire promises and async/await. That doesn't mean languages with async/await are functional, or that programming with async/await is taught as functional, it's just the pedigree of the idea. React hooks lift some ideas from algebraic effects, and embed them in a decidedly nonfunctional, VERY non-pure-functional context. But the pedigree of the idea is still... algebraic effects.