> Don’t use Redux if you don’t need it, as it is intentionally verbose.

Yeah... People say that, but is it true? Lifting the state gets very messy very quickly and you end up with a spaghetti code before you know it, with the separation of concerns dying short yet painful death. For that reason I use Redux even in small projects, guarding myself against unnecessary verbosity with redux-actions. It's really that simple. I understand the need to prove that React can stand on its own without Redux, but the truth is, without Redux it's limping.