Sometimes framework peeps can get caught on complex stuff because it's more interesting. While talking about static analysis, HOCs, immutable thunks and so on is cool, I'm glad Sarah went down to planet Earth to speak to the mortals. There's a lot of market potential for Vue in legacy sites.
I understand that this is probably not the ideal way to use Vue.js, but I love the clear examples and the guide to baby steps into Vue.js. I've got a lot of legacy sites that I work on, where a full build system and conversion isn't tenable, but something as shown here, totaly is.