Dilemmas with React Hooks: Persistence and Memoization

Agree wholeheartedly. I often feel like when reading the hooks docs that they are describing using them with an assumption that you already understand the problems facing the core team that led to them adding hooks. Articles like this give a lot of clarity to the why behind hooks. I totally get the benefit of not using classes but there is so much more you need to know and the docs assume you have gone through the burden of doing it all in classes and if you haven't, reading the hooks docs make statements that don't always made sense purely from "hooks allow you to avoid classes and their complications."

There doesn't seem to be consensus on the definition of dilemma. Your definition is sometimes used, where a dilemma is a choice between two undesirable options, but more widely it is defined this way:

> A dilemma (Greek: δίλημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.

The article goes outlines a series of cases where you could use choose one of two different but seemingly similar Hooks, and the reasons why you should prefer one over another. That seems pretty accurate to me?