Departure from class based components was one of the motivations behind hooks, those are: 1. It’s hard to reuse stateful logic between components 2. Complex c

Departure from class based components was one of the motivations behind hooks, those are: 1. It’s hard to reuse stateful logic between components 2. Complex components become hard to understand 3. Classes confuse both people and machines See https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation for details. Agree or not, but it is a very intentional and well motivated direction.