> I think the author is saying a potential issue of a vanilla implementation of immediate mode.

And you (pedro_movai) == the author? So you are saying that potential issue? Sorry, technically you are right that the author is saying that but I got confused with you referring to yourself in third person. Nothing wrong with it. Just want to confirm if you're the author.

Nothing in HTML is immediate mode. Any framework with a DOM is retained mode, by definition.

But the api is trying to simulate immediate mode using DOM

That's called an "abomination". The advantage of immediate mode is not storing a DOM. If you write immediate-mode code but it stores a DOM anyway then it's the worst of both worlds.

Isn't that literally React? I find it so immeasurably funny that in his effort to simplify code and invent immediate mode UI, Casey Muratori accidentally invented React

How would you do layouting without a tree structure in place? Not really sure what you're getting at here

You have discovered one advantage of retained-mode designs.

"I think the author is saying" - Wait, are you not the author? This seems dishonest.