compose method and yields

[stefanoborini]

I am evaluating textual for a project I need to implement at work.

I have a very lightweight understanding of it, but something that just rubs the wrong way from the design point of view is the compose() method and the large need to write the layout of the view as a set of yield/with statements, rather than a widget tree.

Is there any actual advantage to this approach, and is there a way to define the view in a way that does not require yield/with logic for each little component of the view?