there is no silver bullet: htmx and hypermedia are a tool, and give you a pretty low-complexity solution to many problems, but eventually you will run into some

there is no silver bullet: htmx and hypermedia are a tool, and give you a pretty low-complexity solution to many problems, but eventually you will run into something that needs a more elaborate front end solution and using Alpine, vue or whatever makes sense. Hopefully by staying close to HTML's semantics and design philosophy, using htmx doesn't introduce a lot of conceptual load on top of what is already there, and saves you complexity where the more elaborate client-side stuff isn't needed.