> But it actually more closely matches what’s really going on, so it’s more straightforward to someone familiar with how React works. The class-based API did no

> But it actually more closely matches what’s really going on, so it’s more straightforward to someone familiar with how React works. The class-based API did not closely match how React actually works and so led to various common bugs which don’t occur anymore with the hooks API. I see this said a lot, so what's really going on that the class API obfuscates?