Reading through this thread seems to validate the point of the article. A lot of people agreeing that hooks and other features are too complex or hard to understand, and then just as many people arguing that they're actually simple and make perfect sense if you can just manage to understand them properly.

This seems to happen in almost every discussion about react over the past couple years.

My point is that I don't quite understand the purpose of arguing that something is not complicated after so many people have struggled with it. I feel like those people's experiences a priori proves it is a difficult topic.