Something like Alt+R is indeed not ideal, but the solution is not to introduce stupid schemes that were only first born as a way to port PC games to console. The solution to rebind, and let players rebind Alt to a different modifier, or better yet rebind Alt+R as a whole to whatever single key or key combination players think works best.
And Alt or not, there was no reason to do away with the action list menus on most items, nor hiding the few remaining menus behind holding E.
Dismissing people's concerns as just "haha you think change is scary" is nothing short of disingenuous, and serves only as a way to shut down discussion.