[dylan-m]

The most frustrating part of this is when you run into some library that is all in on hooks and insists you use hooks, but your project has been using class-based components so far. I was having a great time making a game prototype with react-three-fiber until some model loading code was just like "fuck you, use hooks" and I ended up wrapping a bunch of functional components in special ways to basically isolate the hooks stuff so I don't have to deal with the headache of it all gradually encroaching on the rest of my perfectly functioning project. It's frustrating because every time I wonder how to make it not a mess, the answer is "haha, we lied, they're barely supported; class-based components are for losers and you should feel bad."

It's just frustrating. Couldn't they have had the decency to fork / rename React for all this and leave the old branch to die instead of turning the entire space into some kind of pedantic war-zone for several years?