And if you know this, you could drop some knowledge. Even better, you could drop some sources of knowledge.

Good job proving me right.

I like to leverage some FP to bring readability to python

  from toolz import curried, pipe

  pipe(ages,
       curried.filter(lambda age: age > 17),
       list,
       len)

This way you can follow - vertically - what happens, where, and why.

You can make your own pipe function to avoid 3rd party dependencies

  import functools
  pipe = lambda *args: functools.reduce(lambda acc, el: el(acc), args)

HTMX is just HTML.

HTMX substitutes a DOM element with the HTML response you get from an on-click HTTP request instead of redirecting to a new page.

Claims of HTMX being yet another complexity or yet another JavaScript framework fail to acknowledge this.

no, htmx is (technically speaking) just another JS framework.

Just look how VueJS got started, it began with sprinkled in html and was marketed as the framework for backend devs, as you were just writing html to render lists/objects etc.

And htmx does more then what you're alluding to here, as should be obvious from reading their docs about server-side events, notifications, lazy loading, JS extension api etc