[recursivedoubts]

there's a fair bit of functionality in htmx that isn't trivial: history support, event debouncing, etc. you can certainly write it yourself, but there are advantages to having existing functionality that is well tested and fits together reasonably

fixi.js is a more minimalist take on the same idea: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi

agree that htmx users are weird