10 minutes into VueJS and I already dislike it over just shmacking my back-end PHP code into the front-end template...

Exactly my main bitching point with Vue and React. I find them messy, great libraries/framework...but messy.

This is why I greatly enjoy Angular 5(now 6) because I get logical separation of concerns and when I view my html all I see is just that...html. no jsx cruft, no view and logic stuff on the same file...sure some ng helpers here and thers but not nearly as bad as with React and Vue

For the record I like all of em. But really hate the hypocrisy that comes with react and vue....guess its ok to mix logic and views in such ways when it is done in JS.