Well in this particular instance, their codebase size was reduced 67% and JS dependencies went down from 255 to 9 with TTI cut in half.

I'm not one to always chase the new shiny, but that's interesting enough to explore & I think does bring commercial value.

Last note: HTMX really feels much more like 2006-style web tech in philosophy which is a refreshing counter to all the current js complexity.