If I was reading your post 3 months ago, I would completely agree with you.
But learning React/Redux and Webpack is not that hard at all, just focus on one and move on to the next. WebPack is dead easy IMO, Redux is just an design concept, but it's easy to implement as well. I think sometimes developers over hype technology and make it sound incredibly hard, when in fact is just isn't.
React itself is simple but having a whole project with React/Redux and a full fledged Webpack/Babel config managing dev and prod build is really not simple IMHO.
And, once you have all that working, staying up to date without bugs due to version mismatches can be a real pain.
