[funksta]

I agree on the JSX point, but there are a few libraries that make using plain JS less awkward:

https://github.com/af/JSnoX https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/react-no-jsx

I do wish the React team made their plain JS API less of a "second class citizen" to JSX though.