[recursive]

The conclusion I came to is that some people are willing to put up with hooks if it means that they don't need to learn how classes and prototypes work. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me. Not all reasons are good reasons.

[eyelidlessness]

This seems at least part of it. And you don’t even really have to learn those things to use stateful React class components, they’re very seldom deeply inherited or require any `this` besides lifecycle methods and their own implementation. Rendered components are not instances.

I know there’s an aversion to classes in a lot of the current React community but the Component design in React was really much easier to reason with.