How do you define "simple"? Simple is a very complex topic :)

For example, in React the common way of using hooks is `useMyhook()` where "Myhook" is whatever you name it, like "useState", "useEffect", etc.

So I'd argue that an API that follows the conventions in a platform is simpler than one that rewrites them. In this specific situation in the first demo, I would expect to have a hook called `useCounter()` instead of `counter.use()`.

Furthermore, since we are manipulating state again the convention in React for state manipulation is to return the value and then the setter, like:

    const [counter, setCounter] = useCounter();

Now I understand since it's a global state we cannot give it a local initial value to avoid race conditions, so that's IMHO about as simple as you can get.

I didn't do that, but I believe I got pretty close with my own React state management library https://statux.dev/:

  const [counter, setCounter] = useStore("counter");