This exactly. I just started a new project with htmx this past week, and it absolutely amazing. It brings the magic of the web back we first experienced moving away from 90's windows programs. I'm a firm believer that react/angular are grossly mis-used for information based apps and websites, they should really only be used for rich client apps like chat, music players, image editors, offline, etc.

Image editors or offline stuff - sure. But even Chats and music players - there is not much going on in the browser.

I’m using this approach (other library, though, which is called twinspark.js) for year and a half.