Author here. SXO + Reactive Component offers a middle ground between full hydration and static HTML. By rendering semantic server-side JSX and using a 4.8KB client library to provide signal-based reactivity.
I'd love to hear what you think about this approach for web components architecture.
I lurked on comp.lang.lisp quite a lot in 1999-2002, and I made a point of reading Erik Naggum's posts on technical topics. Those posts made me feel that I learned something. When I had time, I sometimes read his non-technical posts, too, and most were pretty entertaining, as long as not taken too seriously.