Neither agree or disagree, but just want to say that's exactly how I felt about Angular when React first came out. It wasn't much of a "framework" at all, just an easy way to render onto the DOM from js.

I very much like the idea of compiling code to make direct DOM mutating managable. A very powerful idea regardless of which syntax you end up going with. I wish their website talked more about this instead of having a React comparison on every page.