Advanced MVVM in Jetpack Compose: Search, Pagination & Cross-Module Triggers

User types "android" into your search box. That's 7 API calls if you wired it the way I did the first time. A few months later I shipped a pagination bug where every infinite-scroll fetch flashed a full-screen loader for half a second. And then there was the Settings screen that needed to refresh the Dashboard when the user changed theme — but Settings couldn't import Dashboard without a circular dependency. These are the three problems I run into on every non-trivial Compose app. Below is the M