You can use React vanilla if you want, but you will spend a lot of time keeping props in sync and making sure changes are invoked up the chain. So cool, you na

You can use React vanilla if you want, but you will spend a lot of time keeping props in sync and making sure changes are invoked up the chain. So cool, you nailed that down vanilla - you're awesome. Or you can just Mobx and not worry about it. It's not like you're forced to use Mobx. Even when I worked with Windows Forms in .NET 2.0 you still had to have some way to keep values in sync, and instead of "Mobx" you had some home-grown monstrosity.