I think this is actually more a matter of taste. Been there, done that. These days I prefer to just mix in my language of choice with HTML instead of mixing it in with some extra templating language that basically does the same but is harder to read and reason about. But that is the whole debate about jsx in a nutshell I guess.

Considering Reacts popularity, it is an interesting question though if templating languages replaced php and asp or are on the way out again in favor of that style of coding.