I think you misunderstood me. I use htmx where most people would use fetch. I do not just use htmx willy nilly for no reason.

I use pure front end manipulation to set state, then I send the state to the stateless back end with pure functions, and I get amazing performance: www.multicardz.com public test bed, 1M records, round trip usually around 160 ms for anywhere between 1 to 100K hits