You're making the mistake of assuming that what people talk about on HN/etc. is correlated with the state of the industry. Tech forums are always going to be fo

You're making the mistake of assuming that what people talk about on HN/etc. is correlated with the state of the industry. Tech forums are always going to be focused on news and up-and-coming things, whether or not those up-and-coming things actually succeed at displacing the technologies they're aimed at displacing. Also, and I'd love to see actual demographics on this but I know it's impossible, while lots of posters on HN/proggit/whatever are professionals, a lot of them are also high school or college students that are still coming at it from a hobbyist perspective (i.e., focused on what's new and exciting rather than engaged in the relatively boring world of getting paid to solve other people's problems). For that matter, a lot of the professionals approach their work from a hobbyist perspective (not necessarily a good thing for their customers). I don't mean to sound like I'm down on hobbyists or students at all, just that different people care about different things, and just because most HN posters know a lot about the technologies they post about doesn't mean they know or care about the actual state of the industry (just their corner of it)(that applies to me too of course, we're all like the blind men and the elephant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant