Checkout DataStar, it's also a hypermedia web framework but it subsumes the functionality of htmx, is faster, more efficient and fits inside 11 KiB. It uses SSE + brotli streaming compression to achieve compression ratios up to 4000x. It makes the web client completely stateless. Building a webapp cannoy be simpler really.
that sounds really cool but i've already made a commitment to HTMX, at least for the foreseeable future. My main goal here is building a physical radio station.