Yep, you nailed it. I've been looking at low-JS and vanilla JS again recently given the amount of hype around these kinds of frameworks (and the perceived matur

Yep, you nailed it. I've been looking at low-JS and vanilla JS again recently given the amount of hype around these kinds of frameworks (and the perceived maturity of the browser). It still has the same problems you describe. You worded it way more eloquently than I can.