You aren’t the only person, I’ve certainly heard it before. But I’m yet to hear a convincing rebuttal to Mixins Considered Harmful [1], the hooks talk [2] or th

You aren’t the only person, I’ve certainly heard it before. But I’m yet to hear a convincing rebuttal to Mixins Considered Harmful [1], the hooks talk [2] or the Motivation section [3] on the announcement. The arguments I’ve heard is that it is “cleaner”, “more understandable” or the OO style is preferred. Some developers feel uncomfortable with hook magic because it introduces a more niche programming concept than OO (e.g stateful functions). I don’t find these arguments compelling. What the React team managed to do was reproduce the same functionality as class components while decreasing the footguns associated with them. 1. https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmful.html https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmfu... 2. https://youtu.be/dpw9EHDh2bM https://youtu.be/dpw9EHDh2bM 3. https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation