Redux is dead in the water... [but] shows 7M downloads weekly. The comment contrasts its high download count with the author's negative opinion on its relevance.

Many React devs concluded that Redux was the better Flux implementation, and several of the other Flux library authors promptly stopped working on their libs and began recommending Redux.

Our goal is just to make a solid and polished toolset for building apps and document it thoroughly, so that if people do choose to use Redux it works well for them.

the very justified reputation for boilerplate early on stuck around... that's the way a lot of people still assume it is. It's definitely kinda frustrating.