> Hooks are the way to go, class components should have died a fiery death back in 2018, and at this point any other opinion is just wrong.

To your snarky comment, I'll raise my own snarky rant from a while ago, about hooks leading to render loops that are impossible to debug: https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac...

It's probably not the kind of writing that I'd strive for nowadays but the error message not telling me exactly where the problem is felt unacceptable and clicking on the error source leading me to React code instead of the problematic lines in my code felt just unnecessarily weird.

I know that hooks are touted as the best way to extract reusable bits of code, however when multiple useEffect hooks have issues with dependency arrays and start causing render loops, clearly something is wrong.

Personally, I acknowledge that class based components are an easier mental model for many out there, but are also dead due to the direction that React is heading in.

But I would also suggest that the new Vue Composition API does hooks better than React and that using Vue with Pinia (instead of React with Redux) will overcomplicate things way less for developers who just want to get things done.