Why do people like you always want to suggest that web developers shouldn't have to learn the basics of the tools they use every day? This is page one HTTP stuff.
This is the anti-intellectualism in our field. Where people are so used to finding a YouTube video tutorial for the exact thing they want to do that anything that's inherently hard (like client development) or requires some extra knowledge to do correctly is somehow shitty and needs to be reworked. More and more often it's somehow everything's fault but the craftman's.
It's that mentality that's coasting parts of our field into code monkey cost center positions. Go somewhere like /r/webdev and watch how unresourceful the beginners are and how bad the advice is.
Github also does it for their logout button for good reason. Is that a dark evil pattern to keep you logged in to their ecosystem? Or just something someone would say who doesn't understand it?
The smugness is when you classify a bunch of other people as annoying as if they are incapable of making their own technical trade-offs. "Wake up, sheeple!"
I use Redux on just about every React project because none of my projects are toy projects. And I'm not just doing it to annoy OP.