To address your point about the lack of fragments: It's not as clean as React's implementation, but you can set a component to "ViewEncapsulation.None" to help

To address your point about the lack of fragments: It's not as clean as React's implementation, but you can set a component to "ViewEncapsulation.None" to help address this. Within a components template though, I frequently use <ng-container> to execute async pipes, or to perform simple conditional logic without adding unnecessary divs.