Definitely not ignoring. I talk about the relation between Elm and that sort of stuff in https://youtu.be/Agu6jipKfYw Lots of things look similar in this area that are not.

I also offer an analysis of "higher order" observables in https://youtu.be/DfLvDFxcAIA, and the big difference is the underlying thread architecture you get using these two.

I hope I'll be able to make these sorts of things clearer in time!