Yes, that was half of my post - but the first half is my hope that eventually the functionality from React/Vue will be built-in to the DOM (or at least baked-in

Yes, that was half of my post - but the first half is my hope that eventually the functionality from React/Vue will be built-in to the DOM (or at least baked-in to the browser). We're already half-way there with WebComponents (though I'm not a fan of WebComponents as-is, but that's a tangent). Also, I still believe that web-pages should be functional without JavaScript. For all of my traditional SSR / non-SPA projects I definitely put effort into ensuring my projects exhibit graceful degradation. There's already a lot of things we can do without any scripting at all: animations and dynamic content, for example - and we can even use CSS trigger-tricks for basic interactivity (e.g. show/hide toggles) all without scripting. What I'd love to see next is something like WPF/XAML's declarative data-binding in HTML (but in a less broken way...) - and I'd like to be able to submit a <form> element directly as JSON, as well as AJAX-like <form> submissions that don't replace the current document, all without scripting - that's the dream (oh, and CSS positioning relative to an arbitrary named element, I could go on...).