Imo, front-end code is by much closer to the unknowing, untechy consumer than any other software and thus is much more susceptable to the fast pace of today's "

Imo, front-end code is by much closer to the unknowing, untechy consumer than any other software and thus is much more susceptable to the fast pace of today's "trends". This brings a culture of fast creation and disposal to web development and therefore JS. JavaScript is the Burger King to C's fine dining experience that you talk about for years to come, because it had such an impact on how you think about food. I think what you are describing is rooted in this culture of the language. Front-end code has a short life-span. When you have just finished building a web-friendly site, "responsive" webdesign comes around the corner and all of a sudden is the new standard. Once you implemented Bootstrap to make your site responsive, everyone is telling you to get rid of Bootstrap and rewrite your site using CSS-grid. For all of these things there are multiple JS-transpilers, frameworks and polyfills that "leverage the power of [insert whatever]" and of course the ~~grunt files~~ ~~gulp files~~ webpack-workers to go with it.