I will say that I used to really not like hooks and that’s because I think the migration documentation and messaging was handled pretty poorly.
That being said, if you’ve worked with state management like Redux, I would argue that hooks are pretty similar to how you hook up that kind of data store.
Yeah, Redux is another big mistake I stayed away from. "Line after line of throat clearing and pseduostructure", as one developer put it [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342764