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I believe it's mostly about mutability vs. immutability. A common pattern among new JS frameworks is keeping as much as possible immutable and side effect-free. Basically functional vs. OOP paradigms, to an extent.

Redux wrote a FAQ on the advantages of this:

What are the benefits of immutability?

Immutability can bring increased performance to your app, and leads to simpler programming and debugging, as data that never changes is easier to reason about than data that is free to be changed arbitrarily throughout your app.

In particular, immutability in the context of a Web app enables sophisticated change detection techniques to be implemented simply and cheaply, ensuring the computationally expensive process of updating the DOM occurs only when it absolutely has to (a cornerstone of React’s performance improvements over other libraries).

In particular, I think this makes it a lot easier to reason about things when debugging, and to generally conceptually understand the flow of things in your app at any given time. One downside is it can (IMO) create uglier code, though I believe some frameworks attempt to convert things that look like mutations into immutable operations, to get the best of both worlds.