Acemarke, I know you're fighting the good fight with Redux Toolkit. I personally use it for truly global state with React Native. It's unfortunate the Redux name has a bad connotation for some as RTK is really good. And for some reason Context became something that developers thought was actually usable. Not sure what happened.
Eh, there was entirely valid reasons for the backlash :)
Redux _was_ overused in the first couple years. The original patterns _were_ very boilerplate-y. There _are_ a lot of other good tools for varying use cases that overlap with things that people have used Redux for: Context for prop drilling, React Query / Apollo for data fetching, Zustand/Jotai/Mobx/five-million-other-libs for state management.
Redux will never be the "must use this" lib again the way it was there for a couple years.
And that's a _good_ thing, because folks should take time to think about what problems they actually need to solve in their apps and pick the tools that work best for those problems.
But it's also true that Redux _is_ still a useful tool, and that RTK has addressed the pain points in using Redux. So, still very much a viable choice today, and the positive feedback we get on RTK daily shows that.
Really, the bigger issue today is that a lot of folks don't seem to understand the technical differences, tradeoffs, and intended use cases between a lot of these tools.
I wrote an extensive post describing the differences between Context and Redux to try to help with that:
I've also been trying to start up a community-driven site to list common tools for various use cases (state management, styling, build tools, data fetching, etc), to act as a resource to help clarify this sort of confusion:
Sadly I haven't had time to push it forward myself due to all the other responsibilities and tasks on my todo list, but hopefully at some point we can get enough info filled in for it to be a real resources that we can point people to.
