Have you tried MobX? I feel somewhat the same, and I’m that way MobX has been a good in between for my work involving web interfaces. It’s been extremely easy to implement into older projects using no globalized state as well.
Redux was a “wtf” as it grew in our app and was a real struggle to back out of.
My current personal project is a video game drum controller trainer that I am writing in Bacon.js streams instead of redux. So far it's been a mindbending experience - I'll have to master it before I know if it's any good :)