OK, well in that case I agree w/ you, htmx handles trivial stuff pretty well:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

Comparisons w/KnockoutJS (and old angular) are pretty superficial: Knockout is a reactive framework whereas htmx is hypermedia-oriented, they scale differently. htmx tends to scale well when UIs are well factored on the server side:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/