Correct use of hooks isn’t an optimization, it’s a necessity to make your programs work. Your position is more like saying: “Why does C++ need special syntax

Correct use of hooks isn’t an optimization, it’s a necessity to make your programs work. Your position is more like saying: “Why does C++ need special syntax for initializers? Surely you can just use alloca() to grab a variable-sized blob of bytes from the stack and cast it to whatever types you’re initializing.”