> There are major state update issues and the team had opted to assign IDs and data to the DOM elements and use those to look up state in the redux store befor

> There are major state update issues and the team had opted to assign IDs and data to the DOM elements and use those to look up state in the redux store before modifying it. This sounds awful and seems like an anti-pattern. I don't think this anything to do with React (other than perhapps that React gives you the freedom to do things wrong). Your devs don't have a proper understanding how React (or Vue) works. Define state model, define view, modify/interact with state, let React modify view. That way you'll never need dirty hacks like fetching state from Redux by using the DOM ID.