Absolutely, and Elm bakes the React+Redux model into the language itself and makes it all a lot smoother and cleaner to do - but it doesn't play nice with a lot

Absolutely, and Elm bakes the React+Redux model into the language itself and makes it all a lot smoother and cleaner to do - but it doesn't play nice with a lot of JS libraries which you could use fairly easily with React/Redux. Always tradeoffs, sadly.