I think a big chunk of magic in Ember is its state machines. I think without explaining this core-mechanics and how it's used by ember and ember data. Beginners

I think a big chunk of magic in Ember is its state machines. I think without explaining this core-mechanics and how it's used by ember and ember data. Beginners will have a terrible time learning the framework. Not only this, but you're exactly right you end up in weird unresolved states, due to bugs, race conditions and a like. Not fun. Also ember should try and move away from calling itself an MVC, it's much more complex then that. I think this mis-categorization confused new users as well. I feel ember has a lot of broken promises, but I will continue to hold judgement until a solid 1.0 release.