I hate directives. There is nothing you can do with them you can't do with just plain callbacks or putting React components inside another that renders its children. HTML templating directives are stupid too, I find myself looking up syntax references for angular even though I've used it for ages. (Think semicolons and magic variables like `$event` or `index` in *ngFor bindings – you don't need these unfortunate and necessary syntactic choices if you just use JSX.)

So yeah, Vue is probably slightly more declarative than react, at the usual cost of having to learn all the declarations. When I first looked at it, I saw the 'v-' prefix on HTML attributes and just stopped.