I've found hooks incredibly easy to reason about, and I'll happy take the bit of magic that goes along with it. (Anyway, I don't see any of you criticizing JSX

I've found hooks incredibly easy to reason about, and I'll happy take the bit of magic that goes along with it. (Anyway, I don't see any of you criticizing JSX for being magic.) On the other hand, I really like functional programming, so I've seen the entire development path of react as positive.