Ya, this was not worded well at all (and more likely just not well researched (in the article, I mean). The difference between hotwire/livewire and LiveView is that with LiveView you get a "live" connection to persistence BEAM process which comes with benefits like not having to rebuild things (like the current user) on each request and storing ephemeral state on the server (if you need it). Of course there are trade off like PWAs are not fun in LiveView (you likely just wouldn't do it, I never have).