[acemarke]

That's part of what I was getting at, and what I talk about in the first couple links.

Lots of folks have used Redux because they were _told_ they "need" to use it. That's always been overkill. And, yes, there are plenty of other viable alternatives that overlap Redux's capabilities in various ways (Apollo, MobX, React context, etc).

So sure, it's not a "must-have", because you should _always_ evaluate tools and determine what's really appropriate for your use case rather than just blindly using something.

But, at the same time, Redux is still very widely used (~50% of React apps), and not going away. So, there's a big difference between "not an automatic must-have" (which is true) and "dead/dying" (which is not).