Hooks are a big shift towards a more fine grained reactive programming in terms of API. However even vdom vs reactivity systems is not an obvious choice, since

Hooks are a big shift towards a more fine grained reactive programming in terms of API. However even vdom vs reactivity systems is not an obvious choice, since they have their tradeoffs. The same conflict is much more visible in vue. Thankfully, there are a lot of alternatives that explore this problem space