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I still think there's a missed opportunity to create a frontend framework that works really well with AI tooling.

The amount of times I've had to correct AI output because it doesn't quite understand control-flow around JSX is astonishing. I still feel like JSX in its current state isn't the ideal thing we should be using in 2025.

Svelte 5 fairs better, but then AI gets confused around template modules vs non template modules when it comes to runes. This might get better if Svelte opens up declaring state and other bits of logic in control-flow, but it's still not great.

For context, they work really well outside of writing code outside of framework "template" logic. Like they're super powerful at fixing regexes and mundane tasks that would take me 20mins, but now takes me a few mins.

Isn't it at this point better to just vanilla the whole thing? Let AI worry about framework ux. In the context of AI training, standards are a safer bet than ever changing frameworks.

Standards change as regularly as frameworks tbh lol. Also what really is vanilla JS these days? You need some kind of structure and framework, even if it’s not React etc, otherwise scaling things becomes difficult - security, testing, accessibility, A/B testing, performance and i18y can be unwieldy