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Well the Elm architecture inspired ClojureScripts re-frame and JavaScripts Redux. Both of those handle state similar to Elm. You are right that Elm is not ripe for primetime but Elm's value stretches far beyond its handling of state.

Also make sure to checkout NoRedInk's take-home and its server-side usage of Elm including server-side rendering.

https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home

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100% agree and it makes me try and handle state in a similar way even in plain Javascript without any libraries.

Will check out take-home more when I get a chance, I did see some murmurs on the Elm mailing list of how it would be easy to do server side rendering. What impressed me about React's was that I could just call a function and get the HTML as a string. My project is statically generated so that was exactly what I needed.

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