Looking at things, I'm starting to think that with certain exceptions we probably will end up wanting to call update externally for the most part. This is because update basically breaks my ability to call parent (without incurring needless queries).
There are some cases where this might not hold true - for instance, doing things like adding or removing links from nodes (called by a link), though there might be a few tricks we could apply there to let that update get called at the end.
Its not a priority right now.
Looking at things, I'm starting to think that with certain exceptions we probably will end up wanting to call update externally for the most part. This is because update basically breaks my ability to call parent (without incurring needless queries). There are some cases where this might not hold true - for instance, doing things like adding or removing links from nodes (called by a link), though there might be a few tricks we could apply there to let that update get called at the end. Its not a priority right now.