I see this and I raise it to the entire hooks system. React with classes was much better.

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constructor(props){
  super(props);
  this.state = ....
}

Was so clunky though

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My point wasn't to defend classes, but to point that hooks weren't the best solution to that. So IMHO, both have their prons and cons, but the lifecycle in classes was a lot more logical than it is currently when you start adding multiple useEffect on a component.