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I'd be wary to encourage useState. It seems too easy to accidentally use in loops/callbacks/etc where your state would then break because react tracks it via call order instead of call site.

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The rule about unconditional calls tends to sound weird (I personally found it very strange when I first saw it), but in my experience, people do not have a hard time following it – it’s very rare to want a variable number of state fields, for example.

If you do end up making a mistake, React has both lint rules provided and runtime checks to catch any errors. But from watching many people learn and use Hooks, we haven’t seen it to be a problem in practice.

You don't use useState to set the state, you use useState() to GET back a function that can mutate the state. And this function is safe to call in a loop or conditional.

When using hooks, yes, you have to remember not to call any use* function inside loops or conditionals (or use the linter plugins for that). Besides that, hardly any room for errors.

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