I'm quite sympathetic to your position. I'm someone who left software in the early 00s to take a career in academia only to see my Java and old-style C++ experi

I'm quite sympathetic to your position. I'm someone who left software in the early 00s to take a career in academia only to see my Java and old-style C++ experience become more and more obsolete. I luckily managed to wiggle back in when I decided academia was no longer my thing. From where I sit, though, it isn't necessarily about react, ember, angular, or whatever. It is about javascript in particular. The shiny parts of the webworld are moving from CRUD style server side apps to client side rendering and SPAs. For regular CRUD apps and a lot of other places, a server language like Python, Ruby, or Java are still pretty useful. But it really does seem like the future is interactivity, which for the time being means JavaScript. Languages like Python are likely destined to be (modulo wasm) backend ones that generate API endpoints and straightforward, noninteractive CRUD pages. Of course that definition of 'future' is fleeting. In a few years I'll be bemoaning the churn in whatever new language ecosystem has turned the exponential corner.