Well you say this now, for nearly a decade no one gives a crap about Web as in HTML, it is all about JS Front End. The current resurgent and support of HTML is relatively new on HN. Other than the very few vocal ones about how the Web should not be an "App". But an interactive web page.
I still wish they should merge 90% if not 100% of HTMX into official HTML 5 spec.
To me this sounds hyper immature. It sounds like you don't really know what you are doing as a technician and instead you are checking whatever box whatever employer at the time tells you to check. Then when confronted with the reality that your output is clearly wrong you instead shift blame to something about tools, because diddling the tools is all you really know what to do.
I still wish they should merge 90% if not 100% of HTMX into official HTML 5 spec.