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Redux is not intended to be THE state management lib for every possible use case. It sure can cover pretty much every case though as people tend to notice, that requires quite some boilerplate. For typical CRUD apps that stay in sync with the backend, I'd recommend going with MobX or GraphQL (Relay or Apollo on the client side). There you can directly mutate objects just like you're used to.

To reiterate what other people have said. This it not a problem of React, this is a problem of people blindly jumping on the Redux hype train, without doing the required reading into Redux and its use case.