That’s what I expected. But I think discussions here are making me realize that I could probably achieve what I hoped to by including deep versions of a few things: the get operator, the view widget, and field transclusions. There would probably be others, but I already know how to do the first two and could investigate the third.
Ouch! Yes, that would be ugly.
Triple ouch! This would probably be a deal-breaker on its own.
That makes me wonder, though, if my thoughts of macros and operators that could do this sort of traversal to fetch content would also have the same problems with the refresh mechanism. (BTW, this mechanism is so brilliant that I never think to notice it; it simply works in the background for me, on my generally fairly small wikis. At some point, I’m going to have to pay it attention, but I’m still operating as an [almost-?] intermediate-level user, and have spent no time with the core.)
Thanks. I’ll check them out.
And also, more generally, thank you for all the work you’ve put into this wonderful tool.