I am also wondering:
How are we supposed to access the data of components in the beforeUpdate-Hook?
I just started working with strapi a couple of months ago and only used V4. It really strikes me that this feature isn’t included.
I think components, especially in combination with dynamic zones are fantastic to model more complex data structures and still getting an easy to use interface in the Content Manager.
I am currently using components to model material variations for a material catalog and I want to process the data of the components in beforeCreate and beforeUpdate and store the resulting json in a json data field.
This seems to me like quite a common use case.
So is there any plan to add this back in? Because any workaround is performance wise not great…