Yeah, that sucks. So much that there are people building tools to avoid that approach. Take a look at these:
- https://htms.org - https://unpoly.com - https://hotwired.dev
- https://htms.org - https://unpoly.com - https://hotwired.dev
Reading over the Hotwired homepage, I honestly thought it was a funny parody like http://vanilla-js.com Turns out it's an actual framework!