you’d still need much of what React does

HTMX’s docs seem to hand wave away front-end state management as something that no longer applies.

I feel like you're begging the question that you need front-end client & state. I have ASP.NET apps still running from 10 years ago. They're fine. I'm adding HTMX to remove the page reloads. Why do I _need_ anything else?

(edited HTML => HTMX)