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> Vue offers an interface that is extremely heavily transpiled and modified before it actually resembles code that can run on the browser, and uses an entirely magic (read: opaque) rendering system

Not entirely true. If you're looking to code that "resembles code that can run in the browser" without that much "magic", Vue has an interface for directly declaring render functions, also for the possibility of using JSX.

See doc here: https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html