Have Clojure UIs Taken the Wrong Path? Part 1

The answer to the rhetorical titular question is 'some probably have, but not in general, no'.

The business logic goes in a .cljc file, and the frontend and backend are both written in Clojure, so it doesn't matter if the components are rendered into html on the server or on the client.

The win isn't avoiding js so that you can have more html, the win is clojure's (edn) data-oriented approach to frontend (hiccup) that lets us use the most powerful language in sight (clojure) to never have to write any js or html. (: