What we really need is a web standard that allows devs to plug-in a custom templating language extension. It's dumb that the browser renders HTML, a framework

What we really need is a web standard that allows devs to plug-in a custom templating language extension. It's dumb that the browser renders HTML, a framework bootstraps, parses the template, then re-renders the view. 90% of the front-end frameworks exist to provide templating + some special set of features. If we standardize a pre-render hook to plugin custom templating engines then frameworks can shift to focus only on their implementation specific strategies (ex data binding).