well, from my point of view i write 40% the amount of code with react hooks than i did with react classes, i probably reused about 40% more code, and can write components 50% faster than before. i also refer to React documentation about half as much as before.

not sure what's 'fucking stupid' about that.

it might be harder to grok at first - but that's the reality of tools - by nature, they get more complex but more elegant, i think it's fucking stupid to want to go back to componentDidMount()componentDidUpdate, componentWillReceiveProps, componentWillUnmount, getDerivedStateFromProps and UNSAFE_componentWillUpdate. like... really?