As someone who was into higher order components but left front end work before hooks were a thing, I’m wondering how the programming experiences are different a

As someone who was into higher order components but left front end work before hooks were a thing, I’m wondering how the programming experiences are different are different between the two. It seems to me like more or less the same thing but hooks have more magic? Is it just a syntactic difference or are hooks a paradigm shift even further than HOC?