[KronisLV]

> After having to use them in a large React codebase for years now, I still can't stand them.

I actually feel much the same way and have vented about some of my frustrations before: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac...

However, that amounts to precisely nothing, because the industry has decided to use hooks moving forwards and they're basically inevitable, because even if you'd ever want to use something like class based components, the libraries that you'll try to use and integrate with will still make you use them sooner or later, because it's actually not easy to maintain support for a wide variety of ways to use your library.

In the past few years, i've increasingly felt like i should look at either Vue (which i already use at my day job) or Svelte, or even Angular for my personal projects.