Yeah, unfortunately once something gets a large community, it takes on a life of its own.
Part of the issue is that the Redux docs _do_ show many of these patterns (`const ADD_TODO = "ADD_TODO"`, separate files and folders for constants / actions / reducers, etc). Dan has said several times that he didn't expect folks to literally mimic everything that was shown in the docs, but tbh that's what people do. He's also said he wishes he'd emphasized teaching it in some different ways.
We're doing everything we can to try to teach better practices and patterns now, but that can't magically change the gazillions of existing tutorials and codebases that are out there.
Part of the issue is that the Redux docs _do_ show many of these patterns (`const ADD_TODO = "ADD_TODO"`, separate files and folders for constants / actions / reducers, etc). Dan has said several times that he didn't expect folks to literally mimic everything that was shown in the docs, but tbh that's what people do. He's also said he wishes he'd emphasized teaching it in some different ways.
We're doing everything we can to try to teach better practices and patterns now, but that can't magically change the gazillions of existing tutorials and codebases that are out there.