When you get to the absinthe part you lose me. It's the same gut feeling I had when I see Redux where it works but it was created at the very beginning of this entire workflow discovery and better tools/approaches have since come out.
Can you elaborate on what they are, for the curious?
Redux is still a solid choice. Apollo is used more often now because it handles a lot of GraphQL optimization but it's by no means a panacea. And sometimes, despite being an advocate of Apollo, I miss the simplicity of Redux.