To this comment’s replies: The dev of HTMX has said and is well aware that HTMX/hypermedia-based approaches don’t work well for every type of web app, but claims that it fits well with the vast majority of them, so the chance of it becoming bloated for want of fitting every single use case is pretty low. Greg says that a developer’s most valuable weapon against the complexity demon is limiting features by saying “no”, so I think the chance is pretty minimal.

So the cycle spoken of would be broken at this sentence. “SJSLib grows complex because it has to support all the web things.”