Ask HN: What do you think about React Hooks?

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Link here: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

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I feel exactly the opposite is the case. Hooks can improve expressiveness a lot by helping developers to separate concerns and keeping logic that belongs together in a separate place.

While I understand the argument that hooks encourage to make dumb components stateful this is already the case with class based components. At the end of the day a developer is responsible for separating concerns of his application and he can fail to do so with class based components and hooks the same way.