Only if you're so ignorant of how React works that you don't realize the JSX isn't HTML, it's syntactic sugar/an alias for the React.createElement method. It's

Only if you're so ignorant of how React works that you don't realize the JSX isn't HTML, it's syntactic sugar/an alias for the React.createElement method. It's no different than $(<p>) in jQuery, so unless you're referring to some pre 2007 attitude, what are you talking about?