As long as React was the "View" and was marketed as such, being able to express declaratively what ui should render given a combination of state+props, it was g

As long as React was the "View" and was marketed as such, being able to express declaratively what ui should render given a combination of state+props, it was great. Then... i don't now what happened with hooks sprecifically, but i still have hard time figuring out why they were needed other than making everything looks "more functional" I often read something like algebraic data types, I was astonished. React.createClass was all we needed, and some optimizations from there was possible. Today they market themselves as "don't use React without a framework" it's stupid