I also subscribe to the HATEOAS principle and really like the idea of separating the visual and business logic layers so that I can mix-and-match technologies based on the problem domain. The glue layer I'm using is HTMX - it can be dropped in anywhere, allowing you to pair any templating language for the front-end with any general-purpose language on the back-end.
As an aside, I have a personal definition of "vibe-coding", which is when the language/framework is so good, that it pretty much gets out of the way and lets you solve the actual problem at hand, instead of wrestling with a language/framework/way of life/whatever. That's what Django/Python, HTMX, some Alpine.js and Tailwind (just the classes) have done for me
