The data-down, events-up architecture is fairly popular not just with Vue but React, Ember and other frameworks as well. The main criticism of it (at least in R

The data-down, events-up architecture is fairly popular not just with Vue but React, Ember and other frameworks as well. The main criticism of it (at least in React-land) was that you ended up with a lot of noise from having to pass unrelated things up and down from intermediate components. This is what React context and higher-order components were meant to address when they were conceived.