[Bahamut]

In my 1.5 years or so of using hooks, I'm finding components with hooks subtly more buggy than their class counterparts - there are a lot of gotchas with that dependency array for hooks, I have encountered nasty bugs both with explicitly declaring all of the dependencies in the array and declaring less than them.

It is much easier to accidentally create infinite loops with useEffect that you would never create with class components, and some of the code you write turns out to be more verbose and less expressive, such as when trying to diff previous and current values of state & needing to create extra state variables with useState for each such value you need to react on.

Hooks seem very appealing at first (I lean more FP than OOP in general), but the bugs and slipshod initial rollout out of beta really does not inspire much confidence. Even today I still encounter weird issues.