Wow what an absolute nightmare to wrap my head around. Reminds me of J2EE days of abstract patterns everywhere just because we can. Talk about simplicity.
The author addresses this point early on: "... earlier frameworks made building Todo apps simple but real apps hard. But React Redux make building Todo apps hard but real productions apps simple."
I don't think the author advocates using react-redux for the simplest todo list app.
Here is the same app in 130 lines:
https://github.com/techlayer/espresso.js/blob/master/example...