It's great when you can just pick a simpler tool, and it turns out to be an adequate tool. When you don't need the benefits which React provides for building ve

It's great when you can just pick a simpler tool, and it turns out to be an adequate tool. When you don't need the benefits which React provides for building very complex interfaces, there's no reason to put up with its complexity. There are kinds of applications though where React is indispensable, and HTMX would become unmanageable spaghetti. Stuff like Facebook (the original authors of React), GMail, Jira, etc. Such complex applications (not "websites") are relatively rare. If yours is not of this class, do explore simpler solutions unless you enjoy React and would write it for fun (and even then).