[agentultra]

> This is probably an ill thought through rant but...

Everything after the "but" and all.

The whole point of Redux is to separate actions and state manipulation. An argument that, "well I want to manipulate variables feely," is not an argument. Just don't use Redux. End of story.

The pattern doesn't come from React. There are many patterns in React that are just Monads by a different name. Redux isn't much different.