I've been using it for the last two years. Don't you feel it's quite low-level and also quite problematic to have to keep thinking about caches all the time?

I have never used Recoil. How does it compare to Zustand?

Recoil = Jotai (mostly equal.) Check out the comparison doc https://jotai.org/docs/basics/comparison

recoil is a winner

apparently they lifted atoms