Right… I think HTMX is cool and would like to try it. But the argument that “we need to go back to when things were simpler” just falls so flat to me. I remember the Web 20 years ago. It was pretty bad and ugly and slow and clunky and unintuitive.
We’ve made a lot of progress since then thanks in part to the powerful front-end state management and rendering solutions that are now standard. And if the argument is “we don’t need all that, I prefer simpler web pages…” then I just think you may have a totally different preference set from the average user. Normal non-engineers like sleek modern interfaces, not Web 1.0 forms and links and reloads
We’ve made a lot of progress since then thanks in part to the powerful front-end state management and rendering solutions that are now standard. And if the argument is “we don’t need all that, I prefer simpler web pages…” then I just think you may have a totally different preference set from the average user. Normal non-engineers like sleek modern interfaces, not Web 1.0 forms and links and reloads