> Unbelievable that they’ve gone ahead launching this

I hope the irony of criticising a team for launching something early, on HN _of all places_ isn’t lost on you.

> going all in on hooks

They went all in on hooks in 2018 when they rewrote the internals with React Fiber.

Hooks are how react works, class components are more of an abstraction—not less.

> while the fundamental problem with them, which was raised in 2018 is still unsolved

If it was a showstopper it would have been fixed by now.