This was exactly my journey too. And I went from a server side templating to going deep into Nextjs/react and then back to htmx/go templates. Every time I

This was exactly my journey too. And I went from a server side templating to going deep into Nextjs/react and then back to htmx/go templates. Every time I think "oh this pattern would have been possible with react" I find a much simpler way. All that dependency bs and bloat was just not worth it.