I'm curious if the author of the article is an HN reader, and if yes, how this comment is received.

I'm the author of the original article. fwiw, I haven't seen anything that bothers me.

And if there was originally a harsher response which I missed, well then I hope it wasn't merited.

I'm pretty light-hearted about this topic! It's more fun that way.

I will never ever ever ever touch htmx after this interaction I just witnessed.