I like the private jet analogy. I think people are naturally comparing HTMX to React, which is the source of misunderstanding in this discussion. But its not entirely wrong to make this comparison because people are also slowly learning that HTMX may potentially be able to implement 90% of the use-cases. Now whether or not HTMX is "simpler" to implement in all of those use-cases is highly dependent on many factors like I called out in the article.

Hopefully by understanding people's opinions, we can all make better engineering decisions though.

I think