It sounds like they would repaint the entire terminal on every single change, but that is not what the alternative to VDOM is. They could have skipped straight to the list of terminal commands without the overhead of diffing for an even faster result and that's of course not as easy as it sounds, but that is more or less what lit-html attempts to do with the strategy outlined on https://dev.to/thisdotmedia/lit-html-rendering-implementatio.... This of course comes with a different overhead, so the option to change a `style` property directly should still be considered an option that beats all these strategies if you are doing it sixty frames per second. The problem with VDOM is not with the technology, but with the marketing that has made us believe that such an approach is problematic and slow.