Yes, this was what I wanted to get across with the article (although I utterly failed to do so). I think I would stick to HTMX for other reasons (which I've made clear in my top-level comment on this thread), but I now I see it an occasional tool to use for something simple and not long-term.

> The two biggest problems with HTMX is that being fully server side controlled you need to put the whole app state in the URL and that quickly becomes a nightmare.

Or you can create a large session object (which stores all the state) on the server, and have a sessionId in the URL (although I'd prefer a cookie) to associate the user with that large session object.