We have noticed a serious performance issue in the TreeList control which I have confirmed in the latest version in this Dojo: https://dojo.telerik.com/aNuKanAG. This Dojo is a based on the TreeList in-cell editing demo from your website.
I was trying to figure out if there was any good reason for this. In the Dojo above all data are nested under a single parent. So, I created another Dojo but this time there are two separate parent groups: https://dojo.telerik.com/OcEmAgIz. This Dojo is based on the Binding to local data demo from your website.
The problem here is that these re-renders are very expensive. Imagine if the call to console.log was instead something else that might need a bit of computation time to complete.
The simple act of expanding and collapsing a group from an unrelated part of the tree, or simply opening and closing an editable cell should not result in the entire tree being re-rendered. This is a serious performance issue, and seems completely unnecessary.
What I have demonstrated in the Dojos I created is that Kendo is re-rendering the ENTIRE structure. The goal of this feature would be to rerender only the specific cells of the treelist that have been impacted by an edit.