Fix and Improve Ground Control

[RichDom2185]

Description

The mutable state should have been migrated to use useRef when the component was transitioned to a functional component.

This was a regression introduced in #2875.

Type of change

• [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• [ ] This change requires a documentation update
• [ ] Code quality improvements

How to test

It should now work, aka fixes this bug:

Checklist

• [x] I have tested this code
• [ ] I have updated the documentation