I think bypassing the entire DOM would be ultimately a good thing. There's no real choice in webdev; we are all shackled to a rickety and cobbled together mount

I think bypassing the entire DOM would be ultimately a good thing. There's no real choice in webdev; we are all shackled to a rickety and cobbled together mountain of legacy code. Browsers should always have been a well defined VM with everything else built on top. I'm hoping we can get away from being shackled to what Microsoft, Google, and even Mozilla think is necessary and important for developing software. What we'll lose of course is interoperability. But I think it will be worth it.