There's definitely a difference between taking table state and storing it somewhere globally for use later and 100% controlling the table state from outside of the table. Doing the latter involves listening to the table state for changes in an effect, shipping the new state up to your higher-than-component storage location, detecting in that same component a change in the global storage location (usually just a memoized prop or hook of sorts) and updating the table state with your updated global state using either a table method like instance.setFilter or even a state reducer if you want total control. The tools are in place and the API is flexible enough to do what you are referring to. I'm sorry your comment in Spectrum got lost in the noise and that you had to resort to posting your question on here.