I'm afraid I have to disagree with your disagreement!

I personally am not a fan of class based web development - I think that modern functional component React >>> Class based React.

To me hooks are way more intuative than;

writing classes, lifecycle methods and knowing the differences, lexical scope (`this.`).

I can understand that hooks are not for everyone, but I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that hooks are more complicated than doing things "the old way".