[2Pacalypse-]

Well, as far as my understanding of hooks go, and please do correct me if I'm wrong, hooks are not just about giving functional component an option to use state and lifecycle methods. They are also a much more powerful and flexible replacement of mixins and offer an (arguably better) alternative to use certain design patterns, like render props.

I did assume that hooks were not supported in classes because it would be too complex to support that use-case, but the linked article specifically has an "Absorb the Complexity" principle, so it seemed a bit weird to me. Also, I understand the decision to try to motivate the community to use function components more, but is this the trend that we can expect to continue seeing in React? Certain APIs being phased out until they finally become deprecated. I know it has happened a few times already in React, but not on the level of something like a class API.