We are wondering if it is possible to prevent t.render() being called when using t.set(). This would help simplify our power-up development code. Otherwise, as a requirement to use t.set(), there are cases where we need to check first if any key/value pairs has changed.
It is not possible to stop t.render() from being called.
In general, we recommend doing some sort of check inside of t.render to decide whether your Power-Up code needs to respond or not.