forceUpdate in react not a valid comparison?

I noticed in react there’s this code

swapRows = () => {
    const data = this.state.data;
    if (data.length > 998) {
      let temp = data[1];
      data[1] = data[998];
      data[998] = temp;
    }
    this.forceUpdate();
  }

Why is that not the same as react hooks? as in

  swapRows = () => {
    const data = this.state.data;
    if (data.length > 998) {
      this.setState({ data: [data[0], data[998], ...data.slice(2, 998), data[1], data[999]] })
    }
  }

Same for update and remove

[mrienstra]

Should this be closed since #869 merged?

[krausest]

Absolutely!