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the biggest thing is native html is a pain to make non-trivial websites with. JSX, via react, provides a nice modular API that easier to write and manage vs a blob of html and raw js files.
Of course if web components, I haven't really looked into them provide a similar level of abstraction, thats great. If not people will end up (mis)using React and co because it's easier from a developer experience point of view.
There are alternatives of course. Astro [1] produces native, static html from JSX. Deno has Fresh [2], which offers a similar thing in the Deno ecosystem. Next.js [3] has static html option, but last time I tried it, it wasn't as nice as Astro or Fresh in this particular area.
[1]: https://astro.build/