Agreed. I must be getting old and grumpy, but I really am tired of learning 'new' frameworks and ideas unless they actually provide some sort of benefit. For

Agreed. I must be getting old and grumpy, but I really am tired of learning 'new' frameworks and ideas unless they actually provide some sort of benefit. For example, I started using Docker here and there. There's a bit of a learning curve and I initially thought 'how is this all that much different than running a VM or two?' Only later, when a single docker compose file set me up with a full CMS, DB, NGINX, etc. stack did I understand just how cool it was. To compare, I've spent a few years now on various projects where the front-end guys have added all sorts of bloat - bower, then grunt, gulp, Angular, React, Browserify, JSPM, onto Webpack. Hell, it looks like npm is now being replaced by Yarn - WTF? And the vast majority of this crap is absolutely no better for the user than the old school MVC server side template apps+JQuery that worked for years.