Sure, you're right about that. It's just that everybody, for example, has the option to use React.createElement directly without JSX, as it's just a syntax suga

Sure, you're right about that. It's just that everybody, for example, has the option to use React.createElement directly without JSX, as it's just a syntax sugar and people use it because they prefer it over the other option. Let's consider Vue's syntax: <template v-for="todo in todos"> <li v-if="!todo.isComplete"> {{ todo.name }} </li> </template> Genuinely, do developers have the option to "just use JS" here (for looping and conditional)? I personally think this Vue example is very inferior to JS and I see it as an unnecessary complexity unless this "weird string magic" is what enables some nice-to-have feature which is not possible with plain JS.