Just a note paraphrasing a Medium post that I encountered that extends point 2: it's a lot more robust to work with a framework that essentially puts HTML into Javascript rather than many alternatives, which essentially do the reverse. Javascript is a lot more complex than HTML, and yet most of the alternative JS frameworks attempt to compress some version of its logic into templating.
What other platforms embed a subset of a language into the templating one? I've only seen this done in HTML. Even "back then" I opted to use pure PHP for templates rather that trying to use some comment magic based DSL that does little more than variable replacement and a for loop. The templates in Angular for example are a good example of what is wrong with stuffing code into templates rather than going the other way around.
