`useContext` is excellent. React.context is a solid alternative to the likes of Redux and Apollo, but takes a fair amount of boilerplate to add to a class based React component. But with `useContext`, applying global state is a breeze. A lot easier to manage than Redux, at the very least.

The only real dislike I have, is in how `useEffect` confuses the React lifecycle. It took me a little while to grok the lifecycle idea, but it was/is a useful way to conceptualise what happens to your components at runtime.

But now, you have to remap all that knowledge to the hooks workflow. It's not a huge challenge, but it's yet another overhead.

Indeed, starting out, our team ran into a number of issues with infinite rendering loops and the like. Took a fair amount of reading to discover where the pitfalls were.