[iainmerrick]

The difference (as I understand it) is that you don’t need to list your dependencies as you would with a hook, and you can call it anywhere. I find this approach conceptually simpler than hooks.

[jitl]

Sure, but you could at least wrap the whole component in observer(MyComponent) like Mobx and avoid all this skullduggery with the internals.

[capableweb]

Invisible dependencies and avoid referential transparency sounds more complex to me than the opposite (upfront dependencies and referential transparency), not simpler.