Haha, the alternative the author proposes looks like either Mithril or jQuery-over-JSON. Those patterns (done like that, not jQuery) have a very concrete proble

Haha, the alternative the author proposes looks like either Mithril or jQuery-over-JSON. Those patterns (done like that, not jQuery) have a very concrete problem of failing 90% of the rendering in case of errors ("Don't have errors in your page then." "There weren't errors in my page prior to this breaking change in ES/DOM API."), and they aren't ergonomic (matter of taste maybe...) if they aren't transpiled from something more palatable. I'm not really sure about why "that" would be more modern than "this" (reactive frameworks), too.