It's also largely a fact that we're paid better for following hypes, at least in the UK. Thus a smart "engineer" who also cares about their bank balance pretty

It's also largely a fact that we're paid better for following hypes, at least in the UK. Thus a smart "engineer" who also cares about their bank balance pretty much has to use everything new to stay relevant. Further, most of the use cases are fairly shallow, so it doesn't actually matter that much, and you'll be paid more to paper over the cracks. We need to change the market, but it doesn't like the strong and stable engineers are getting lead roles to pay more strong and stable engineers to build boring tech, despite that actually being better for most businesses.