How do you push a 6 year old piece of software 2 decades back? I know you're exaggerating, but after admitting that you don't work with front end anymore (so I'm assuming you haven't really worked with hooks for very long) it's hard to understand why your opinion is of value here.

I've been working with React for 3+ years now and hooks are a major step forward in terms of both productivity and writing clean, efficient, reusable code. Anyone who spends some time wrapping their head around hooks realizes this and from what I see, a large majority of react / react-native library developers are on board as well.

Hooks can be adopted and implemented gradually along side class based components without issue, and no one has trouble when both exist along side each other. There is no rift in the react community because of this, and to suggest there is just reveals your ignorance, it's only pushing things forward.