Actually I am in the same boat. Infact I swung twice. First I went from vanilla server side template rendering (in Go) -- all the way to going full in on Nex

Actually I am in the same boat. Infact I swung twice. First I went from vanilla server side template rendering (in Go) -- all the way to going full in on NextJS and beginning to hate all the complexity and then now back. But this time with Go+Htmx (not even alpine - that is on the todolist). I have realized for the "fancy" use cases - just use client side JS as and when needed - did not need any fancy react stuff. ie instead of building a front-end only app and then adding server side capabilities, I started server side rendering first and then adding JS only when needed.