[gliechtenstein]

Hi, author here. Most of the work cell does internally is to let users interact with the dom as though they are touching them directly, but at the same time actually insulates them from doing so by using a pseudo proxy object. please feel free to take a look at the source. The "Nucleus" is the part that handles all this. Hope this answers your question!

[namuol]

The problem with the mutations isn't the direct DOM access; it's that mutation is an unscalable approach to representing UI. A lot more needs to be "kept track of".