The thing that blew my mind was React gave a decent abstraction for externally set values vs internally managed values in props/state. And then the community im

The thing that blew my mind was React gave a decent abstraction for externally set values vs internally managed values in props/state. And then the community immediately declared State as evil, and boiled the ocean to replace it. All UIs need state. Yes state is bad in most cases and makes programming harder. No abstracting it into 4 different files doesn't make it any clearer. There was an issue with composition in React. HOC didn't scale very well, and Inheritance is almost always Bad (TM). That said, I do think hooks were an esoteric choice versus a more explicit service registration/DI pattern.