Less Htmx Is More

It is amazing how quickly a simple, traditional, "collection of pages" type website actually works if you don't do annoying things to slow it down. Most websites would be absolutely fine if a) HTTP was used reasonably well to set things like cache headers, and so (as mentioned in the article) and b) if a load of user-irrelevant stuff like tracking and advertising code wasn't thrown in as well. A simple page with standard HTML, passably optimised assets where needed, and only the JS needed for actual functionality, should be almost instant on most modern connections.

I believe some of these issues are caused by framework abstractions.

New developers learn the framework and never learn how HTTP and HTML work.

Experienced developers have to learn how to punch through the framework to get to these features we get automatically with statically hosted assets.

I don't believe you can break past "absolute beginner" without learning some HTTP and HTML. Most JS frameworks aren't very good abstractions (which is fine).