[cal85]

There’s an interesting assumption here that frontend engineering should always be very simple, such that engineers in other disciplines should be able to hop over and dabble with frontend engineering on the side with no difficulty. Or perhaps the assumption is that React specifically should only focus on the fluffy, junior-friendly end of frontend and leave the more advanced frontend stuff to other toolkits?

[slmjkdbtl]

I think React (hooks) invents a convoluted solution to a problem that can be solved in a more direct way, and there's a lot of big caveats hidden behind the interface that can cause big performance problem and bug. Their invention also requires a specific way of thinking that contradicts a lot of programming intuitions. Complexity is definitely fine if it comes from the problem itself (rendering), but for React most of the complexity is introduced by itself.