These discussions always miss the main point. Remote work gives you the opportunity to decide what suits your life best. It enhances the possibilities a company offers. The main conflict is people trying to convince other people that their way is the right way and vice-versa. Find out what works for you and if you are better off, everyone will be better off around you too including your employer. That is why I mostly ignore these findings. I know what works for me and no study can convince me otherwise. And I know some colleagues like the office more and I'm glad they can go there.
HTMX looks pretty much like something I would use for fast prototyping with very limited complexity/the scope is known ahead to stay simple. I've been working in full-stack for a decade together with extremely skilled engineers on large monorepos. Our wisdom is to stay as vanilla as reasonable and understand what your technology does underneath. As soon as there are layers over layers (tools calling tools with domain specific languages) you wish you could simply change X directly instead of having to go through e.g. create-react-app or htmx. But if any framework can provide me that level of comfort then I'm fine with it although I learned the more comfort frameworks provide the darker the other side.