> When conflicts occur, our system can merge changes intelligently because we're working with pure data structures rather than complex objects. This would have

> When conflicts occur, our system can merge changes intelligently because we're working with pure data structures rather than complex objects. This would have been significantly more complex in an object-oriented language. Not really, in an OO language state could have been stored in some data structure as well, with a way to serialize and deserialize. E.g. React made this very popular.