Really it is quite an amazing situation. The conceptually clunky but easy to understand class components vs the conceptually pure but esoteric hooks. Even at th

Really it is quite an amazing situation. The conceptually clunky but easy to understand class components vs the conceptually pure but esoteric hooks. Even at the time the React dev team were putting in a lot of effort to say "you will get it soon, don't worry", because they already knew it was in many cases difficult to understand and use properly. That should have already been enough of a sign to not push it so hard.