That's just a guess, but I think it might be because the sender parameter passed to the event handler is an instance of HandlesPropertyChangeEvents when the binding expects an instance of MainWindow .
My working solution is almost exactly the same as the "desired implementation" in my question, with the addition of the Sender property.
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