I think VDOM made sense at the time because DOM elements come with so much overhead that dirty checking thousands of elements (in Angular 1's case) does not sca

I think VDOM made sense at the time because DOM elements come with so much overhead that dirty checking thousands of elements (in Angular 1's case) does not scale well. I think the issue became that the VDOM creates some overhead that making very simple DOM changes can avoid altogether. From what I understand, Svelte sidesteps the VDOM and outputs the smallest amount of code to achieve the desired level of reactivity which might be the better abstraction.