[hinkley]

The time I spent fixing logic and layout bugs on several build-a-dom projects has taught me this. For the same reason using CSS Selectors to crawl the DOM is superior. When it doesn't work, how hard is it to spot the bug? If you're working on the front end you need to look things up roughly the same way for style and behavior, and emit them roughly the way the browser will see them when it's time to look them up.

And yet I'm still in the anti JSX camp. I think it has something to do the gear switching that comes with opening up the mixing of data and logic but I can't articulate it farther than that,

Your brain can only juggle a handful of bits of data at a time. If you see someone doing something that looks like this doesn't apply to them, it's most likely because they've memorized the code. And to memorize code, that means it can't change much or very often. Which makes them dangerous. They have a bias toward maintaining the status quo, no matter how awful it is. Don't be that person.