That's true for collaborative experience. Crdts are a mechanism to handle eventual consistency (that's even the preface of the paper). If you assume that said c

That's true for collaborative experience. Crdts are a mechanism to handle eventual consistency (that's even the preface of the paper). If you assume that said collaborative experience is always online, you don't need them, and "using locks" as you described is probably enough. If you want a mechanism to handle that eventual consistency, it's probably better to reuse their principles rather than reinventing something that will eventually ressemble Crdts. You mentioned "offline first", I think it's probably a good place to pluck that ib https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/