If I use alpine.js why do I need htmx still? I would use either of them but not both. Using both seems making a supposed-to-be-simple approach immediately back to complicated-again-now-you-need-two-components.

alpine increases client side interactivity, it can also do ajax to talk with server, why do I still need htmx then?

On the other hand if I use htmx I will probably use its hyperscript for interactivity on the client side, to be 'consistent'.

Note both projects are trying to make frontend simpler, mixing them seems not to help that goal to me.