> There is a reason why HATEOAS is almost never observed in REST setups.

I saw the HTMX creator floating around the thread so hopefully he can confirm, but my understanding is HATEOS is a specific implementation of a REpresentstional State Transfer API. JSON is often used for the API, HTMX uses HTML instead but it is indeed still a REST API transferring state across the wire.

My shift key really doesn't appreciate all these abbreviations