Passing data via props has never been a problem for me. It's explicit, the chain of dependencies explicit, the data flows in one direction, and components can s

Passing data via props has never been a problem for me. It's explicit, the chain of dependencies explicit, the data flows in one direction, and components can still be dumb while letting us push the glue layer all the way to the top. No one has ever approached that code and been confused or had issues tracking down bugs in my experience. I agree it's ugly. I've found it triggers the same sense in a lot of developers that make them over-abstract code to achieve DRY at the expense of simplicity (this is just an observation, I don't have an opinion on if it's good or bad!).