Sure, but trying to strip React of its virtual DOM is just a fundamental architectural mismatch; you can't have your cake and eat it (coarse-grained vs. fine-grained reactivity, fully dynamic arbitrary JSX vs. a templating language etc.). The point I'm trying to make with SolidJS is that it manages to keep JSX by intentionally swapping to signals and introducing primitives and control flow components to scope the compiler, whereas this forces the developer to hold all of this complexity in their heads and write in a specific convoluted way. It's like shipping TypeScript without type declarations and pitching knowing your types in your head as a feature lol.

In the first place, I imagine the subset of React code that’s static enough to compile into direct DOM mutations is so trivial that it’s not a useful optimization target.