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I've had way more random problems from not binding class members correctly than I have with useEffect. Hooks have allowed me to rip out a bunch of JS class boilerplate and my code is cleaner and easier to read as a result.

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Are you against using Babel and the class properties proposal? Binding members shouldn't have been a problem in your codebase in recent years.

I use Typescript. I'm not interested in adding another processing/parsing tool to the stack I already have. Hooks are a much more elegant solution to state management than classes, IMO, but it will probably take some time for best practices to emerge, just as they did for classes.

TypeScript already supports those 'class properties' - and with a few extra features - so you don't need to use Babel for this syntax: you already have it.

I'd still rather use hooks though :)

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