Unfortunately I don't have time to read the complete thesis, but I skimmed it a bit. My general impression is that this sets up a data dependency graph and uses

Unfortunately I don't have time to read the complete thesis, but I skimmed it a bit. My general impression is that this sets up a data dependency graph and uses that to inform the engine of which DOM updates to do, right? Isn't this what Knockout does implicitly and Ember does explicitly? If so, our observation of real-world workloads is that the overhead of maintaining this graph negates the wasteful work, since the wasteful work is actually quite cheap and can be constrained by hints to the system.