[gulugawa]

An islands architecture can be implemented with web components when hydration is needed.

Writing vanilla JS to manage state and backend data loading can be done with a script that is less than 2kB zipped. The script can then be reused.

[evilduck]

At that point, gzipped Preact is only 1k larger (and 10k smaller than htmx) and provides a pretty comprehensive and common set of solutions to the majority of front end problems compared to hand rolling everything.