If you have too many aura:if statements inside aura:iteration, you can transfer some logic to the controller to create markups conditionally using the $A.createComponents() API. The code snippet for this technique is shown, and, depending on the conditions, you can build the final component markup. Let's take a look at the code:

$A.createComponent(componentName, options, function(comp) {
    var body = component.get("v.body");
    body.push(comp);
    component.set("v.body",cmp);
});

This method reduces the number of components and improves performance. However, you are still using the framework, and there is some rendering cost consumed from the framework.