I don’t particularly care one way or the other. I like Vue because it offers flexibility and some opinions. If I want to write a jsx render function, I can do that. If I have a simple functional component for an icon or whatever, I can use the DSL and it’s statically compiled for the final build.

I don’t agree with your point about copy cat frameworks generally, as we’ve reached the point where all the major players are adapting each other’s ideas constantly. I think any of the modern JS frameworks are more than capable of handling any use case.