Thirded (if that's a thing).
I've been working recently on two code bases: one using angular and the other htmx (with python/jinja2/FastAPI). Both aiming to deliver broadly comparable interaction - so approximately comparable in essential complexity.
In a month, or a year, I'm confident I'll be able to check out the htmx app and work with it pretty much right away. The dependencies won't have changed much; the build will still work; and I'll be able to understand the code. I will lay bets now that the same will not be true of the angular app. On any one of those three counts.
If simple, understandable, stable and effective are what GPP meant by "primitive", then I want more "primitive" tools like htmx.
Light sabres, not death stars.