Comment by Vampiero

I guess it doesn't take much to entertain frontend devs, but I'd lose my shit if I had to relearn a new shape for the wheel every 6 months. A Sisyphean existence: one must imagine the webshit happy.

And consider that amazon.com was launched in '95, so yeah, you don't need the latest JS framework to build an empire.

The truth is that 90% of tech is about chasing trends that the people who succeeded have set. It's not because the core ideas have merit or are successful. It's because Facebook did it, so we have to do it too (even though we operate at 1/10000th of the scale). No further reasoning needed, everything else is driven by the hype.

Don't believe me? Just look at the state of LLMs. They're solutions looking for problems and the entire world is eager to waste billions in the process of figuring out that LLMs are not good at factual reasoning.