The bulk of his argument seemed to focus on how he really prefers hyperscript to JSX, which is fair enough I guess...but no, really not a "different paradigm".

The bulk of his argument seemed to focus on how he really prefers hyperscript to JSX, which is fair enough I guess...but no, really not a "different paradigm". Especially since he talks a lot about how much he loves Elm, and Redux went out of their way to copy Elm. The Elm/Redux distinction is basically syntax.