Never seen a tool where the people who don't use it seem to make up some of the craziest, most obscure, weirdest justifications for avoidance. It's totally fine if you're not personally down with HTMX!
However, stating that we're avoiding "idiomatic code" is incorrect. Are you claiming React and JSX and useEffect are idiomatic? Really? Surrounding HTML fragments with return() and attributes with braces is idiomatic? These are literally the antithesis of HTML.
Perhaps the real reason we're happy is that we're experiencing a huge productivity increase, lower cognitive load, fewer difficult bugs, terrific performance, and a great dev experience.
However, stating that we're avoiding "idiomatic code" is incorrect. Are you claiming React and JSX and useEffect are idiomatic? Really? Surrounding HTML fragments with return() and attributes with braces is idiomatic? These are literally the antithesis of HTML.
Perhaps the real reason we're happy is that we're experiencing a huge productivity increase, lower cognitive load, fewer difficult bugs, terrific performance, and a great dev experience.