And yet the underlying issues still remain unaddressed. There aren't better ways to handle the cases raised in that issue, which is why people resort to adding additional non-standard syntax to work around the warts.

> Also, I'm not entirely sure what the do/while plugin has to do with JSX.

The "do" keyword is not do/while, it's a non-standard language feature that you can use to turn statements into expressions by wrapping them. It's like using an IIFE with a return value so that you can use a conventional "if" or "for" statement in place in JSX.

> I would argue if you can write your code as easily with template literals as React/JSX your application isn't complex enough to warrant using a framework.

I don't think you really understand how template literals work. Tagged templates can be used for more than just basic string interpolation. You can read more on the subject here: https://appendto.com/2017/02/advanced-javascript-es2015-temp... Or have a look at t7, which uses tagged template literals for virtual DOM templating: https://github.com/trueadm/t7