I use Knockout heavily at work and agree that it can become a mess. But most of the ugliness I've seen is when people try to be too clever, not really understan

I use Knockout heavily at work and agree that it can become a mess. But most of the ugliness I've seen is when people try to be too clever, not really understanding what Knockout can already do (e.g. writing custom bindings to do lots of 'dynamic' stuff, when each binding is already essentially a dependentObservable and perfectly capable of doing what they want). I actually find writing custom bindings pretty enjoyable. That's where the nice separation and reusability come from.