Thanks for the perspective. :)

IMO the only downside to your approach is that it couples your action creators to the calling component. That isn't necessarily a bad thing but it all depends on what your particular goals are. If you intend to have your action creators as a kind of "super prop" that is specific to your caller and disposable and single purpose in nature, I think that works. To be successful (again IMHO) you'd want to segregate your business logic outside of that layer into either the reducer (as the redux team recommends) or in a service layer that the actions can talk to (my preferred approach). As always YMMV.