In my opinion, React was pretty much complete without the introduction of Hooks. Shifting from the previous Component-derived mental models to Hooks was a caus

In my opinion, React was pretty much complete without the introduction of Hooks. Shifting from the previous Component-derived mental models to Hooks was a cause of many runtime issues in at least 2 companies that I worked for. Unfortunately, React went from less-capable and more understandable to more-capable and less-understandable model. But yeah, that's just a newbie-coder take.