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RawJS library author here.

The main thing RawJS brings is ergonomics when creating element hierarchies of plain HTMLElement instances. I don't see JSX as something that does this very well. A lot of people don't like JSX, because its not JavaScript. There are other libraries that are better document.createElement() that work somewhat similar. RawJS isn't new in this regard, I just believe that it's better executed than the others.

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My biggest beef with JSX is that what I might call the "most natural way" and certainly the "most concise way" of writing certain somewhat-complex structures in JSX often ends up being a huge mess. E.g. an element is some JSX elements with some code embedded, and the embedded code is returning some other JSX elements that have yet more code embedded in them, and the easiest refactoring to make the whole thing less gross is extracting functions that don't really deserve a name of their own.

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