[julenx]

> It's not only million different tools, it also to me seems like every React codebase has a huge learning curve on its own because everyone does it differently.

I've been writing React code on and off since 2014 and I can relate to the pain: component creation and API changes in React (especially hooks) have meant quite a different way to do things, and in my experience this resulted in making things harder to understand across the board.

Life was simpler when `React.createClass()` was the only way to create components :)

[kristiandupont]

Hooks and functional components are indeed a different way to look at it, but I sure am happy that they went that way. I doubt that we will see a paradigm shift like that in React again, at least in this decade. And they've been very good at maintaining backwards compatibility.