Zustand Is Great. But AI-Heavy React Apps Expose Its Limits Faster Than People Expect.

Zustand is probably the most natural default for many modern React apps now. That makes sense. It is small, ergonomic, easy to teach, and dramatically less annoying than the old Redux-first mindset. But after building more AI-heavy frontends, I have a growing suspicion: Zustand is excellent for getting started, but AI product UIs expose its scaling limits earlier than most teams expect. This is exactly why I started reaching for easy-model more often. The Context: Modern React Usually Starts With Zustand For a lot of teams, the default conversation is no longer: "Redux or not?" It is: "Do we even need more than Zustand?" For CRUD pages, dashboards, and lightweight shared UI state, that is often the right answer. But AI frontends are not normal dashboards. They tend to combine: conversation history streaming output tool execution state retries and failure branches logs and traces cross-panel synchronization session scoping derived execution context That is not just "more state." It is s