I've stated several times that hooks are awful, and the general response I get is "oh, you just don't get it," but the way they are implemented is not very func

I've stated several times that hooks are awful, and the general response I get is "oh, you just don't get it," but the way they are implemented is not very functional, but I guess the point is that they are side effects. In terms of other things, JSX has nothing to do with stateless components, it's just a way to simplify writing `React.createElement(yourElementOrTagName, { ...props }, [ ...children ]);` And for debugging, the absolute best advice I can give is to build smaller components, and use something like storybook to demo/isolate behaviour and tinker with it. In general, react is a perfectly fine choice, though. I don't think it's any more strange than angular/vue/hyperapp/etc., but it is certainly lower level, which can feel less intuitive.