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What you're describing is called "replication" in Unreal Engine. It helps tremendously with writing declarative code, and I've found it to be exceptionally powerful and predictable.

I love this architecture so much that I brought it into the world of React and Redux a couple years ago (see https://github.com/loggur/react-redux-provide and https://github.com/loggur/redux-replicate). Dan Abramov and the ReactTraining guys immediately shit on it for some odd reason (I probably did a horrible job of explaining it), saying it wouldn't work in the real world, but I (and my team) have been using it very successfully... in the real world.

With that said, I do need to update the docs and improve some internals (and remove some unnecessary stuff like query handling), but there's only so much time in a day. :)