I suppose the “early on in React’s life” part is relative. The era before Redux, though, was far worse. There were so many flux implementations with very differ

I suppose the “early on in React’s life” part is relative. The era before Redux, though, was far worse. There were so many flux implementations with very different answers for even the most fundamental questions (like where to put data fetching and side effect code), and none of them developed a community large enough that these answers were sufficiently documented and discoverable. Competition is good, obviously, and we certainly still have that, but I much prefer this era where there are a relatively small number of competitors in the space, each with (mostly) well-baked answers to common questions and mature and active communities.