[antris]

>Well, isn't there something a little "revolutionary" about mainstream adoption of cutting-edge techniques?

Taking the example of hooks, React has hooks because it was released with a bunch other stuff in addition to the VDOM, people started using those things as a (poor) framework, shot themselves in the foot repeatedly and finally hooks had to be introduced as a fix on top of that.

Calling that band-aid "revolutionary" or cutting edge technology, kind of sounds wrong. They never would have been there and wouldn't have been needed if it weren't for the bloated original release.

But of course, even if that band-aid makes people think differently about building apps, it's all good. That's why I mentioned in the post that it's a great thing. But calling it "revolutionary" when a large fraction of programmers have been doing it that way for ages is a bit of a stretch.