Most of those features aren't executed well though. Hooks aren't ubiquitous and have very little transformational ability, subagents are routed poorly and lack intelligent context inheritance, etc. It is a good playground to get work done for a great price while building intuition though.
What exactly are your gripes with hooks, wdym by "transformational"? Regarding ubiquity, there's already quite a few repos with collections of hooks; I've only tried notifications and format-on-write so far, the only problem I noticed is that the provided formatting hook is confusing for the model (maybe cc could backtrack and prefill the tool call with the formatter output?)
Subagents are indeed kinda useless, but in any case, I don't see anything better right now
There are events that you can't hook, and for events that you can hook, in many cases you can't do anything other than go/no go. Being able to rewrite prompts and tweak the internal state of the agent.
