Incidentally the “rules of hooks” are frustrating precisely because the expectations they impose around hook use are confusing and unintuitive.
If you're building something that is heavily focused on computing values rather than more event driven effects I could see a reactive system being more useful and appropriate though.
I'd love to hear from developers/teams who have built complex systems with a reactive framework (Solid, Signals, etc) to hear about the upsides and downsides of doing so.
It is definitely easier to reason about dataflow in a good incremental library with dependency autotracking ("Self-Adjusting Computation"[1]) than to reason about nondeterministic concurrent rendering in React :)