I came from a java background. Company I started at used an old templating approach using freemarker, and you could say it just stuck with me. I'm not 100% op

I came from a java background. Company I started at used an old templating approach using freemarker, and you could say it just stuck with me. I'm not 100% opposed to JSX, and I think it has its uses, but I prefer to keep the rendering layer separate from the functional code behind the component. I'll grant that a lot of frameworks like Angular.js and Vue tend to blur those lines a little bit with their approach due to directives, but in the end, it is still html, at least, and I like that kind of simplicity.