[lj3]

> am simply using redux to manage all state

This only works in small apps. I work on a medium sized app at work and we started that way too. It becomes a huge, sloppy mess in short order. Putting everything in Redux is akin to a desktop application that uses nothing but global state. Hooks are great because it keeps the state local, but it can be re-used across components if we need to.

[jypepin]

I would disagree with you and say that from my own experience (not saying your experience is wrong obviously) it's quite the opposite; in small applications, using local states is fine, but as soon as your application grows, having everything inside a central store makes everything cleaner and much simpler, as multiple independent components might want to share state or listen to shared events, etc.

[lj3]

> as multiple independent components might want to share state or listen to shared events, etc.

If you recall, I said...

> Hooks are great because it keeps the state local, but it can be re-used across components if we need to.

The use case you just defined is exactly why hooks were created.