Perhaps you could elaborate on the myriad of problems with data-binding the prior generation has encountered, and how they are fixed or exacerbated by React's solution?

And with number 2, this is subjective, should a template be responsible for rendering it's children (necessitating the need for for loops)? Should it handle filtering in the case of tabulated data, in a way that is consistent and re-usable, or should this be another layer sat between model/controller and the view?