Redux will never be the _absolute_ shortest way to write updates - it intentionally adds a level of indirection (the concept of "dispatching actions").

That said, we specifically created Redux Toolkit to drastically simplify standard Redux usage patterns. Sadly, despite it being the default way to write Redux apps for several years now, there's still a lot of legacy Redux code that isn't following our recommended patterns.

See our "Migrating to Modern Redux" guide for details:

- https://redux.js.org/usage/migrating-to-modern-redux

as well as the "Style Guide" best practices page:

- https://redux.js.org/style-guide/