I had do frontend for decades and witness the Jquery => Angular.js => React/Vue (Class) => React/Vue (Hook) transition. And out of them, the react hook is the

I had do frontend for decades and witness the Jquery => Angular.js => React/Vue (Class) => React/Vue (Hook) transition. And out of them, the react hook is the only one that 'doing it wrong' is easier. A good API interface should have least resistance for the user when doing things correctly. But React Hook almost feels like the complete opposite of this phenomenon. It's complex, comes with tons of foot gun. And yet still get popular? Wondering if there is something other like this exists in the computer history.