I don't think complaining about needing a linter makes sense. JSX is already a compiled language, so you have a compile and build step (doubly so if you're also

I don't think complaining about needing a linter makes sense. JSX is already a compiled language, so you have a compile and build step (doubly so if you're also using Typescript). Think of ESLint rules-of-hooks as just a plugin to your compiler that further modifies the syntax of JavaScript to include rules about when and how you can call certain functions. Hooks are a syntactic element of react code. Calls to them aren't legal inside conditionals or loops. Full linting support smooths over that rough edge just as effectively as babel handling ?. syntax smooths over its absence in certain JS runtimes.