>I was clinging to a belief that emit & bind could be sufficient.
The code for sequencing was built on a belief structure that plugins could, on their own, know relative position of plugins on other pages through a technique of emit & bind.
But continued experimentation proved this belief to be false. Which brought Joshua to an uncomfortable question, what might be another paradigm?
Here he was challenged to "do less", a challenge that ultimately provided the critical insight that sequencing could only be done if plugins have a signal from the client. The client, alone, had the critical sequencing insight needed.
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