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I was trying to discuss the merits or demerits of hooks overall - just wanted to point out that a class based design doesn't need to be significantly less powerful or HoC-level awkward to use.

(I can't resist commenting I suppose - I did follow that thread as much as time permitted back then, and I couldn't agree with the conclusion from the arguments presented. Specifically, I was unconvinced that dispatch performance and file size were that dramatically different. In my experience, classes are very efficient in modern engines and code-splitting means much more than minification, especially after gzip. Even if they are the right trade-offs for Facebook, its unclear whether they're the right trade-offs for the rest of React users and the community as a whole - from my experience it has errected a bit of a barrier to front end work for backend engineers because there is a steep and weird learning curve at the start)