Yeah, this is basically what kills it for me. When I was unemployed and just building random apps for fun it was great that there was a lot of ongoing progress

Yeah, this is basically what kills it for me. When I was unemployed and just building random apps for fun it was great that there was a lot of ongoing progress and evolution in the React community. But when I came back a few months later to show off an app the npm install process let me know everything was deprecated - a bit vexing to consider how much work would be required to keep my shitty side projects up-to-date - not even considering actually building new features into them.