I am inclined to agree. At first I thought Redux was awesome, but eventually discovered that there is a lot of boilerplate and just a general overhead to doing

I am inclined to agree. At first I thought Redux was awesome, but eventually discovered that there is a lot of boilerplate and just a general overhead to doing certain things. However, I definitely fall into the cluster of people that were "just told to use Redux". For my next React project I will certainly evaluate other approaches.