It isn't easily fixed that way: Context's single blob of state is difficult to optimise if you try to use it in the same way as (eg) Redux. shouldComponentUpdat

It isn't easily fixed that way: Context's single blob of state is difficult to optimise if you try to use it in the same way as (eg) Redux. shouldComponentUpdate can sorta work, but you need to do quite a bit of faffing with HoCs because the propagation from provider -> consumer doesn't use SCU (and PureComponent/memo are often useless with context due to shallow comparisons). Note, just to be clear, I'm talking something along the lines of a collection of objects (a Todo app would be an example), something with completely flat state is very simple and Context is ideal in that case. It can be approached by using HoCs that do the comparison before rerendering, but then that's react-redux' connect function