[axbytg]

I would totally disagree. We started migrating our front end to React this year. We dipped our toes in with Class based components, found out about hooks, and never looked back. Hooks are confusing when you're trying to translate a class based component to a functional component with hooks. Starting a component or page from the ground up with hooks is so, so much simpler than class based components. As with any iteration of any framework, there are gotchas, but they are no worse than Class based react (totally opinion there). The mental model, once you latch on to it, is so simple.