Obviously everything I say is anecdotal since I have no data to share but by making components as dumb (i.e. PureRenderMixin) we reduced the amount of logic wit

Obviously everything I say is anecdotal since I have no data to share but by making components as dumb (i.e. PureRenderMixin) we reduced the amount of logic within a component and were able to make it both faster and easier to maintain. Maybe our approach was naive and Baobab fares better here. Another important gain for us was re-usability of components. We have several projects that use the same components that represent the same data but the hierarchy of the internal state of the application can look quite different from one another. Passing everything in as props and avoiding as much state as possible has made this much easier as well. I guess at the end of the day everything is a tradeoff one way or another and you just have to pick yours, as cliche as that sounds. For us simplicity was more important in this particular case.