[Rapzid]

> I think you’re confusing it with Google.

Indeed!

> All of these motivations can be challenging to explain. So people tend to overfocus on “this”.

> I haven’t worked in many companies before, but I find my colleagues across the company to be very good UI engineers. Not sure where you got that impression.

It has its own section on the Introducing Hooks page :) https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#classes-confuse-bo... .

I can't recall if I've seen it brought up in other "official" channels, but it does certainly get talked about a lot in discussions such as this and I believe that's because of information sources such as the link. I will defer to you on the real situation, but I think hearing about classes and "this" being confusing, coming from React, is where people might wonder what's going on. Mentioning it at all may have caused a large distraction as people latch onto it as you say, and find the situation a bit incredulous.

[danabramov]

It is unfortunately the only point that we can clearly explain to beginners, designers, and other people who aren’t deeply familiar with programming principles. We still care about them and want to emphasize we’re not ignoring them with some new paradigm. When you have such a vast audience as React does, someone will get upset anyway.