Solution 2 is clearly the best option. htmx authors would be wise to get opinionated and champion that approach. Forget about IE11 compat. Completely rearrangin

Solution 2 is clearly the best option. htmx authors would be wise to get opinionated and champion that approach. Forget about IE11 compat. Completely rearranging the DOM (Sol. 1) and a two request chain for one update (Sol. 3) are non-starters