I don't know. The guy just doesn't like hooks? I think hooks are absolutely amazing. I'm in charge of a very large codebase. We are currently migrating it from

I don't know. The guy just doesn't like hooks? I think hooks are absolutely amazing. I'm in charge of a very large codebase. We are currently migrating it from CRA to Remix, about 40% done. When I compare my Remix code with the old code, it's EVEN BETTER than the old stuff. Despite the gigantic codebase, I am always able to figure out what is going on (thanks to hooks, just read the function from top to bottom), where the data comes from, where it goes to. It's just all around a good developer experience. I have a feeling this guy just yearns back to simpler days where websites where static HTML & CSS. I have also been able to consistently hire absolute greenhorns right out of tech bootcamps with zero formal computer science training and they were able to build features that made our company real money and push to production within the first two weeks. React can't be that bad. Now that we threw out react-hook-forms (Remix does it all fine with default form APIs), Apollo (don't need their caching any more, so just sending plain GQL requests via fetch does the job), Redux (Context API is just fine), emotion (TailwindCSS is so so so so so much better)... our Remix codebase is basically pure HTML and Tailwind's css classes. It's a bliss.