I'm quite confused with this direction of the Redux. Honestly, I think James's review makes sense. This version of Redux is built with different purpose than the previous ones, that might affect how existing users (developers) feel.

While building a new product takes more time, effort and risk, I think it's the right way to do.

Anyway, congratulations to Dovy and the Redux team. Building a product is so hard and making it popular is much more harder. I hope this will make Redux a sustainable business for you.