Not at all. Vue's templating (and angular's) is essentially extended HTML--you're writing HTML _as HTML_, using HTML's native practices (element attributes) to

Not at all. Vue's templating (and angular's) is essentially extended HTML--you're writing HTML _as HTML_, using HTML's native practices (element attributes) to hook into the JS. I disliked this when I first used Angular, but after adjusting to it I've found that it's highly respectful of HTML's design patterns, the opposite of a hack.