[tombert]

Oh absolutely, no argument here at all.

I don't do a lot of frontend, but for anything that does involve frontend I kind of refuse to use anything but re-frame. It took a bit of dogma-acceptance, but once I did I really liked it for all the reasons you listed, and in particular that there's no special JSX crap, and instead just using vanilla vectors and symbols. This has the interesting advantage where you can generate your HTML logic without actually having to import the re-frame/re-agent logic, which can be useful if you want to decouple logic from rendering.

I haven't done any benchmarks, but I haven't noticed re-frame being slower than vanilla React, it seems to be a comparable speed, but as stated I don't do much frontend.