The author does seem to not consider the case of where you already have HTML and just plop it in and make it dynamic. Luckily JSX is completely optional, and a

The author does seem to not consider the case of where you already have HTML and just plop it in and make it dynamic. Luckily JSX is completely optional, and a JSX->hyperscript converter being well possible means the syntactic choice remains only a slight annoyance at most.