Hooks made simple things simpler, but hard things harder, code with lots of boilerplate was replaced with code with leaky abstractions full of various workarounds - I don't think this is a good trade.
While I hate class component lifecycle methods they are much better than complex hook setups when solving more advanced problems.
Could you elaborate why you dislike lifecycle methods? I read this take a lot and I use mainly angular but did some smaller projects with react class components and with function components. I also think function components are very counter intuitive but I also never had anything against lifecycle methods.
Just having an interval inside a component used to be trivial, but with hooks becomes tedious. Only the barebones simple ultra basic stuff became simple. Everything else? Harder.