Comment by drewcoo

> I wonder why there are so many, just people reinventing stuff that no one really needs? Or were you being rhetorical?

What do people really need? Who defines and polices that?

> just reloading full state from the server is just easy to explain to the users and easy to implement

Is the green light on? If not, press the "power" button. Never underestimate the difficulty of explaining the simple to the uninterested.

The audience in this case is geeks like us, so it's probably ok to have wonky process until someone forks the project and fixes those problems.