There is a real pressure from the ecosystem though. When looking for a library there is good chance that anything recent is written with hooks in mind, and the examples are primarily hook based and the issue tracker is full of questions about hooks... so while you can try to alter your own behavior it feels like you're swimming against the tide.
See my reply to _stefan above (responding to the need to use something out of necessity for lack of alternative).
In respect to swimming against the tide, this is where experience comes in and knowing both how and _why_ something works the way it does. Over time, you can develop your own opinions and not have to worry that much about what everyone else is up to.
Admittedly because I mostly work alone that's a privileged POV of sorts, but I think teams can "act as an individual" and adopt a similar attitude (scale of team permitting).
