Redux has greatly improved workflow for integrating with React. The main issue with Redux is that it pretends to be generalized state management engine, with all the overhead, while it’s in a shotgun wedding with React.
Will React team attempts another state management, aka Flux, when Redux does 95% of features and is slowly being absorbed into React eco system anyway?
Gatsby/nextjs will likely merge into a single React static site generator. Similar to React router and Reach router merger.
React is like jquery, it’s going to be around forever. React is almost at the core web infrastructure tech level, just by consensus alone.