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:) this isn't tongue-in-cheek it was a real experience

the htmx sucks essay was definitely tongue-in-cheek though (although many of the criticisms were legitimate, and even agree with this one, such as the lack of a component ecosystem!)

Why is this tongue-and-cheek? Doing this sincerely is a huge confidence builder.

What makes you think it was tongue-in-cheek? It sounds quite genuine to me?

Perhaps because of pages like this one: https://htmx.org/essays/htmx-sucks/ (note the URL)

Different authors and very different tones, but yeah, that essay was tongue-in-cheek, so I guess I could see why you might think that at first. I thought it might be, when I saw the title, but then I read it and realized quickly it was sincere.