It doesn’t help that these tools are very terribly documented, and changing all the time either. I learned AngularJS a few years ago. I didn’t learn it becaus

It doesn’t help that these tools are very terribly documented, and changing all the time either. I learned AngularJS a few years ago. I didn’t learn it because I had a specific problem I was trying to solve and I needed a “framework” to solve it - I learned it because the team I was on was using it, and I had to learn it to be productive. And they didn’t use it because they had a specific problem to solve and needed a “framework” to solve it - they used it because it was trendy and had some press around it. So nobody actually understood what it was. Not just in the “how do I do _x_ in Angular” sense but in the “why does Angular even exist and how is using Angular better than using nothing at all?” sense. I couldn’t admit that it didn’t make a lot of sense to me, because they were all pretending that they understood it (which I only verified later, after I actually did understand it, that they didn’t), but I could read the documentation. It was awful. There were a couple of online tutorials that stepped through some incredibly trivial problems that could be much more easily solved with plain-old Javascript. I picked up a couple of books that weren’t much better (and lost weeks reading them). I finally ended up mostly just reading through the codebase to make sense of it and when I finally figured out really what Angular did and what it was for I realized that the reason nobody ever explains that is because it sounds so trivial, although it’s actually fairly important.