I would imagine Vue is a much lighter, far less opinionated version of Angular. I've never been able to understand why templating is superior. And I want a strong argument that makes me seriously appreciate it, even if I don't change my mind. I've yet to see it. One gripe, at least with Angular templating, is templating constructs that are defined globally feel like leaky abstractions. Angular Pipes, for example. When I see a pipe, it's hard to find where's it's defined, where as React components are imported at the top of the file.
Because I already know the language, it's easy to conceptually build on top of that, which is why JSX is simple. But templating essentially defines a whole new language on top of it. It's not an insurmountable barrier, but it increases friction.
Maybe there's different brained folks where either "everything as code" vs. "HTML templating" is simpler.
