React has hooks because React's "classes" were pretty crappy…partially due to crappy OOP in general in previous eras of ECMAScript. But instead of actually making their syntactical sugar better as JS' native OOP paradigm improved, they went the opposite direction. After having to use them in a large React codebase for years now, I still can't stand them.

For a look at a UI library that actually rocks precisely because it embraces OOP and the native object graph of the DOM, check out Lit. It takes everything that's awesome about browser-native web components, then simply adds some fabulous DX on top for reactive re-rendering upon prop updates. I've never used a UI library in my life that's meshed with my brain better than Lit. I'll take a good Lit-based web component class any day over React.