Yeah, React is a pain for when you need to interact with the DOM elements themselves. If you want to add some logic based on where the element happens to be placed, instead of where you have told React to place your element, you're in for a headache. Now the DOM is one source of state (positioning) and your store (Redux or otherwise) is no longer the single source of truth.
IMO, there's no way it lasts purely because of this.
We already have the DOM, and there's literally nothing that React can do that requires its complexity EXCEPT server side rendering. Which most people never use.
