I agree with you; your original comment was talking about beginners specifically, though. That being said, it's the natural state of any field moving fast. Web

I agree with you; your original comment was talking about beginners specifically, though. That being said, it's the natural state of any field moving fast. Web development has even worse fragmentation. Mobile development has about the same amount of fragmentation. There are a dozen distributed computing frameworks (Hadoop? A dozen things on top of Hadoop? Spark? Mesos? Kubernetes?).