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I for one preferred the diplomacy.

The 'magic' involved in hooks is a tradeoff; there are real benefits in the way you can consolidate logic, or mix in behaviors. Personally, I strongly prefer hooks to HOCs.

Many technologies have magical behaviors and are still very popular and useful (Rails comes to mind). I'm really liking the pros and cons being brought up in the rest of this thread.

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> Personally, I strongly prefer hooks to HOCs.

To me this is the most visible win. useSelector for Redux, useIntl for react-intl, useHistory for react-router, useStyles for material-ui, etc. Almost every library I use radically simplified their API by adopting hooks.

It also makes types much easier to analyze (whether using, say, VSCode's inference or Typescript) when using hooks. With HOCs, types tended to get lost through the arbitrary amount of <Wrapped {...props} /> chains.

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