Good points, thanks for that. I'm more the old-school, server-side web guy from CGI and servlet days, who happens to like Haskell and related languages now. To that end, I haven't really been doing anything front-end at all, but would like to explore some of that.

I'm not even sure that HTMX isn't enough for my needs, so smaller and lighter is my definite preference. I suppose I should try more Elm now, and tinker with Purescript and GHCJS later. If it's all side projects, then I'm not really swapping anything unless it's a choice I'm making to explore new-to-me tech.