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Using Angular or Vue without a module system sounds awful. How do you organise your code? Manual namespacing on the global object?

So I'm coming from a perspective where I will definitely be compiling my JavaScript regardless, and adding JSX doesn't make much difference complexity wise (and provides a much nicer syntax).

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Can't speak for Vue, but Angular has its own module system in addition to ES imports, which does give a gain when it comes to testing.

There is one benefit to Angular's templates that is pretty nice due to its use of TypeScript - you get intellisense in editors on your templates.

JSX is typed, you get all the benefits of intellisense and type safety. It even supports generics.

ES modules with relative URLs have shipped in browsers, and when import maps [1] land, it could become viable to not bundle or transpile for local development and only do so for production builds.

1: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps

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