[petewailes]

That's more because most components are render-focused, which means they're more concerned with props than with state. Of course, a particular render component might also have its own state (imagine a list with pagination for example), which isn't required by any of its parents or siblings.

However, state is something on the whole that's required more often higher than lower in your architecture.

I'm pretty sure that's what they're talking about here. Hope that helps.