I decided that react was going down since the introduction of hooks. Before that I was using higher order component (hoc) perfectly fine and there was even libr

I decided that react was going down since the introduction of hooks. Before that I was using higher order component (hoc) perfectly fine and there was even libraries like recompose/recompact that made HOCs more convenient. They're really just functions (no magic, not like quote unquote) and they don't invite devs to convert everything into them and break portability/separation of concerns like hooks do. They're also highly composable (there are no such thing as rules of HOCs), you can pass HOCs as params or put them in conditional code branch or whatever you feel like.