This article makes ME feel like I'm going insane. Have you even read the React docs? The article you linked about "patterns" in React is explicitly referencing patterns that are 7+ years out of date. Hooks were built to REPLACE those patterns, and they did a phenomenal job. 90% of this article is immediately invalidated by introducing a simple, 20loc "useQuery" hook (or, god forbid, looking at ANY of the libraries th…
HOC with render prop in 2025 https://github.com/TanStack/form/pull/1469
Render props in 2025 https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/Dialog.html#aler...
and there's more examples, just couldn't find more without looking
just saying, in general I agree, but they still have their place