On one hand you suggest the culture of complexity is overwhelming, when just a few paragraphs earlier you suggest that sql-tuning and redis caching are how to deal with some of htmlx's problems with latency. That seems highly complex. You have to make deep changes to the back-end and data persistence systems to solve a front end issue.

It feels like the article is trying to say you shouldn't use javascript frameworks in a lot of cases, but then it advocates for using htmx, which is a javascript framework, in those cases?

In my experience the issues people have in front-end come from using tools and frameworks incorrectly, because they don't understand the tradeoffs being made -- so they don't account for those tradeoffs in a reasonable way that eventually comes back to bite the team. Handing people a new JS library that is seeming to intend we completely avoid javascript and therefore the library itself, creating an incentive not to learn how it works.