Fight the fatigue by realizing that tools like React and Redux aren't really designed to make your first 5 hours more productive, they are designed to help you

Fight the fatigue by realizing that tools like React and Redux aren't really designed to make your first 5 hours more productive, they are designed to help you manage your project as it grows by making it testable, debuggable, performant, composable, etc. Yeah your first 5 minutes on a vanilla JS or jquery project might be super productive... but write code like that for a year and you might not find the same to be true. The bottom line is that building software is actually rather hard, but it's not hard because of the first 5 hours. It's hard because of the next 10,000.