[jinushaun]

My experience:

  1. Hooks and functional components were supposed to save us, but has made react harder to use in large codebases because most developers don’t use React as intended. A lot of foot guns because most JS devs don’t try really understand closures. I remembered way less problems and bad practices in the componentDidMount days. 
  2. React demos well for small apps, but its un-opinionated nature means there is no standard for large codebases that need to load remote data and manage shared global state. No one likes redux or any other de facto solution. React needs to come with batteries included, or at least strong opinions on how to manage large codebases.