I think the point is, there is no explicit state, order, history etc in Reticulum only destinations who announce that they are there and nodes who know to which node they have to send a data package received for this destination. As the destination is derived from an identity and aspects defining the kind of data, the final node knows what to do with the data. So the network is emergent dynamic self-organising.
I think Reticulum is a much underappreciated project, which should be widely known. It's somehow shocking that someone designing new network approaches never heard of it. Happy to point you to it. Maybe there will be some fruitful outcome for both approaches.