I'm 100% with you on this. One of my teams just spent 3 weeks ripping out all of that tedious (and error-prone!) resolver code that resulted from trying to use apollo-link-state for local state management and switching it all to redux instead.
It is insane how many silent failure modes the Apollo cache has. Performance and ability to estimate work (predictability) went through the roof since then. It's just way overcomplicating things to do state management this way - Apollo is a lovely GQL client otherwise.
I may do a write-up on this one day, as a cautionary tale. It boggles the mind that this is being pushed so hard as an ultimate solution to state management - nice in theory but awful in practice.
It is insane how many silent failure modes the Apollo cache has. Performance and ability to estimate work (predictability) went through the roof since then. It's just way overcomplicating things to do state management this way - Apollo is a lovely GQL client otherwise.
I may do a write-up on this one day, as a cautionary tale. It boggles the mind that this is being pushed so hard as an ultimate solution to state management - nice in theory but awful in practice.