htmx never claimed it's the solution for everything. there is no next conceptual step. it's sending snippets of html to the client.

i read most htmx threads on hn and it's clear that people are looking for alternatives from react et al. they have a quick look, maybe implement an example and they are angry that it can't do everything they want cause the js ecosystem fatigue is real.

the centerpiece of the htmx site is an actual in-production app that was converted from react and it's better because of that. again, it will not be everybody's case.

htmx will let a lot of developers go all the way without bringing node into their ruby/python/php world for certain workloads. for them it is the future. the rest should stop reading.