With big apps Redux scales exceptionally well, and the terminology (a design pattern, really) allows devs unfamiliar with the codebase to immediately start cont

With big apps Redux scales exceptionally well, and the terminology (a design pattern, really) allows devs unfamiliar with the codebase to immediately start contributing. The design also allows for middleware (and access to a vast middleware ecosystem), performant lookup, caching, and more. There's a lot more to it than global state access throughout a component tree. All of the write ups out there about "why you don't need redux" are all right on. You typically don't. You'll know when you do, however. And it's worth preemptively diving in if planning for a large application.