Change 623411 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] ve.ce.Surface: Debounce onModelDocumentUpdate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623411

Change 623411 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] ve.ce.Surface: Debounce onModelDocumentUpdate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623411

Change 623875 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (b49db9a5b)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623875

Change 623875 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (9534694b4)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623875

Change 629471 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Follow-up I78041b9b4: Debounce just showModelSelection

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/629471

All the extra calls appear to come from:

/**
 * Handle documentUpdate events on the surface model.
 */
ve.ce.Surface.prototype.onModelDocumentUpdate = function () {
	var surface = this;
	if ( this.contentBranchNodeChanged ) {
		// Update the selection state from model
		this.onModelSelect();
	}

At the very least this could probably be debounced, although I'm struggling to see when it is ever necessary. cc @dchan

It's done because a model change within a ContentBranchNode gets propagated to the view by replacing the entire contents of the CBN, which resets the native selection to the start of the CBN.

Change 809052 had a related patch set uploaded (by Divec; author: Divec):

[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Only update cursor holders if they're not already correct.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/809052

Change 809093 had a related patch set uploaded (by Divec; author: Divec):

[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Use TransactionSquasher to speed up undo/redo

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/809093