With the amount of bs I had to go through when they dropped Hooks, I'll never use shiny new tech from the React Team again. I'm sure there are thousands of devs who feel the same.

I think the React Team will soon be faced with an Angular 2.0 style situation where they are forced to break class components, hooks, etc to get people to use new patterns. The number of people who will do it out of goodwill has had to have been diminished to a minority percentage of React enthusiasts.

Personally, I just rock jQuery for my personal projects. I get the same dollar coming over the wire with a way faster time to live and reduced complexity.