Comment by yamtaddle

Hooks are half of an object/class system (implemented on top of a language that already had a whole one—arguably, two, from a DX perspective, though they're one under-the-hood) with non-standard and hard-to-read declaration syntax and bizarre behavior (FIFO-by-declaration-order property access and method invocation). It's not your fault you're having trouble with them, they're a weird boondoggle.