This adage has been "the first rule of ARIA" since the beginning.
There are a few ARIA "widgets" that have no HTML equivalent, such as Tabs or a spreadsheet-like Grid. Those are heavily documented so you can basically copy and paste whenever you need them.
Avoiding sprinkling ARIA on already-semantic HTML, because this can lead to confusing or inconsistent behaviors for the end user.
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You might consider the Accessibility Tree and its semantics. Plain divs are basically filtered out so you're left with interactive objects and some structural/layout cues.
This is a cool idea! At first I thought it was that they give you notes about what happened, and you have to process the information real-time and suggest practical improvements.
They do pick up the "title" attribute sometimes and apply it as a label. But it's not really the same as being able to keyboard navigate to the browser-generated tooltip.