The DOM is too large and complex, with so many APIs and concepts. But you can’t fix that by adding new APIs with plenty of new concepts. You’re just making thi

The DOM is too large and complex, with so many APIs and concepts. But you can’t fix that by adding new APIs with plenty of new concepts. You’re just making things larger and more complex. A few things may be able to live entirely inside the new, clean, modern API, but everything else (including practically everything that came before), will either need to ignore the new thing, or incorporate it (and pay the costs of bridging/composing things that weren’t necessarily designed to work together. I say figure out how to actually remove old, bad stuff before adding a bunch of new stuff.