Comment by BSTRhino

Yes, I do get this. I made choices to prioritise an abstraction that, in my opinion, makes you more productive. It's not going to work for certain kinds of people or games.

One of my original motivations for creating Easel came from my experience playing (and making) webgames, which in general are coded in JavaScript (or TypeScript). I love webgames as a method of delivering multiplayer because the biggest problem is getting players, and I think the low-friction zero-download really helps with that. So this is the world I am trying to target. When I remade my old webgame in Easel, I found it to be many times more performant and am now able to target much lower spec devices. Not to mention, determinism is a non-issue now.

I get that some people are going to love Easel and some are going to hate it, and that's okay.