My understanding is that he simply does not recommend it anymore, and has put his weight behind hooks, which he's certainly free to do, but I can't really make

My understanding is that he simply does not recommend it anymore, and has put his weight behind hooks, which he's certainly free to do, but I can't really make sense of first seeing the upside of the model of Redux and then subsequently suggesting a tech that takes nearly none of the upside of Redux and runs in a completely opposite direction.