It's not the boilerplate that get's me. It's just easier to reason about the state using Redux (imho). The idea of 1 single global state which mutates and pus

It's not the boilerplate that get's me. It's just easier to reason about the state using Redux (imho). The idea of 1 single global state which mutates and pushes down (instead of managing observables all over), makes it easier to see when/where something changes. The idea isn't new (check react-cursor for example). That said, there's nothing wrong with vanilla flux. Just that I find redux much easier to understand and follow.