Maybe you've worked on the wrong React codebase. It's come a long way from the Redux & class-based monolith structures from early React. The components I work

Maybe you've worked on the wrong React codebase. It's come a long way from the Redux & class-based monolith structures from early React. The components I work on and write are all narrow in scope, self-contained and completely testable with no crazy side effects + minimal global scope. The easy path on React is small functional components.