I agree with you on the preference part. I share the same preference as the GP. I've played a bit with Vue in the past, at the same time I was testing React. I've enjoyed Vue but the strings and template were a grim reminder of the Angular not-so-fun-times and passing members around per-reference and not "per string" made more sense in the general JavaScript way of programming, and so I ended up sticking with React.

Even with tooling support, those strings still make me wanting to look away...