Is escaping < and> sufficient to block XSS attacks?

Question

I\'m sure that the answer to this question is No, but I can\'t seem to find a way that simply transforming < and > to < and <

Answer 1

Not all XSS attacks include < or > at all, depending on where the data is being inserted.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#Why_Can.27t_I_Just_HTML_Entity_Encode_Untrusted_Data.3F