I was with you until the second paragraph, but DOM elements do sometimes have non-dumb semantics (e.g. <label for="foo">, or <a href="#foo">). There's also a ve

I was with you until the second paragraph, but DOM elements do sometimes have non-dumb semantics (e.g. <label for="foo">, or <a href="#foo">). There's also a very good reason we have templating languages to loop over table rows.