That's likely already baked in, but then you end up with an infrequently run bootstrap code path, and "resetting" an app basically means nuking all of its data

That's likely already baked in, but then you end up with an infrequently run bootstrap code path, and "resetting" an app basically means nuking all of its data (some of which might be important to you). This is why we have a clear delineation between persistent and ephemeral state.