For the record: I maintain Redux, and it's never been an actual recommendation from the React team. In fact, Dan has publicly stated that "the only state management tool we recommend is React itself".
Redux is certainly the most widely _used_ state management lib in React apps, but that's a community-driven thing, not anything the React team has specifically suggested (in the same way that React Router is the most commonly used routing lib).
Oh no doubt. I am not blaming anyone specific here. I'm just calling it as it is - the way you write React apps now will be completely different 10 years from now.
Redux is certainly the most widely _used_ state management lib in React apps, but that's a community-driven thing, not anything the React team has specifically suggested (in the same way that React Router is the most commonly used routing lib).