At the risk of a pile on, this is what jQuery was brilliant for. And frankly the native browser APIs have caught up enough that scenarios like what you want to achieve are simple to implement with just a script tag and a sprinkling of JS. I don't know what "Stimulus controllers" or "Turbo frames" are but they don't sound necessary.
Yes. Nobody should have to make a SPA to accomplish what JQuery did with sprinklings of JavaScript. JQuery was maligned because many people used it to make all XHR requests all over the place resulting in non-deterministic async behavior. JQuery was made to make adding small bits of JS easy and work in almost all browsers.
Bringing in React and turning that non-deterministic events firing all over the place greatly improved that situation, but this has become if someone needs JS, bring in SPA framework. This is in spite of the browser world getting much better. So just as JQuery was used to make SPAs to bad effect, SPA frameworks have been used to do minimal JS actions in a bad way.
