I don't think it's that hard to understand the appeal of JSX. If you want your interface to be modeled functionally (state as input, view as output), it makes w

I don't think it's that hard to understand the appeal of JSX. If you want your interface to be modeled functionally (state as input, view as output), it makes way more sense for your view to be the result of a function in contrast with having app logic "stuffed" into a mutable view template. I'm also not sure why you are offering Web Components as an alternative because it's exactly what you are criticizing, stuffing HTML into JS. It's basically just a more limited and less ergonomic version of React class components, that comes with it's own host of unique headaches.