It is slightly different. Classes ended up being worse than what they were trying to supplement. Templating, if done right at least (a big if, granted), can bring small improvement. If classes were better, we wouldn't see them the same way now.
replyHow classes could be better? I don't think it's missing something that would make me use it
replyI’m curious. What is actually wrong with querySelector?
replyString interpolation is so ridiculously slow. Epic slow.
replyPerhaps just as importantly is that is a crutch for many to avoid accessing the DOM in steps. You can read from the DOM with querySelectors but you cannot modify the DOM with them. If querySelectors is all you can do then you must use some third party template system because you have no idea how any of this works even though it provides maximal expressive freedom.
Is anything preventing JS from compiling the proper stepwise dom access if the querySelector parameter is a literal? That would basically push the interpolation into the parsing step.
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