You'd be correct, it's a really unfortunate design decision. The author of CrankJS has a full critique here. https://crank.js.org/blog/introducing-crank https:/

You'd be correct, it's a really unfortunate design decision. The author of CrankJS has a full critique here. https://crank.js.org/blog/introducing-crank https://crank.js.org/blog/introducing-crank