That's true, but in that case observables are little more than syntactic sugar over callbacks. The way I've seen them used in codebases a lot is to decrease the

That's true, but in that case observables are little more than syntactic sugar over callbacks. The way I've seen them used in codebases a lot is to decrease the pain of global state--but that's only delaying that pain, and global state SHOULD be painful. That said, I suppose the answer is just, "don't do that". I may have spoken out of ignorance of how people frequently use mobx, since my experience with mobx is very limited. I probably should have constrained my statement to only talk about Redux, since I have a lot more experience with that.