Comment by cosmic_cheese

I could see where imperative might be more of a mess on the web compared to other platforms, but there’s probably ways to alleviate that. One that comes to mind is never using bare HTML primitives and only ever using components with proper teardown/management built in, of which could be enforced with some combo of linters and tests.

EDIT: Thinking about this some more, I suspect that intermingling of low level primitives and high level components is the root of a lot of problems on the web. It’s convenient in the moment but the mismatch in models is a recipe for trouble.