One of my fundamental rules is that if a rule involves a simple binary, it's probably wrong. Many of the responses in this thread are highlighting that the ana

One of my fundamental rules is that if a rule involves a simple binary, it's probably wrong. Many of the responses in this thread are highlighting that the analysis here is useful but oversimplified: if people are "doing it wrong" it's an opportunity to reflect on our approach to UX/DX, but accepting populism for its own sake is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It's also been pointed out by numerous commenters that the central qualifier - that everyone uses string templates - isn't even true. The most popular front-end systems in modern stacks are structured html. It's in common use today.