I get what you are saying, and on a certain practical level you are right, you can't be that guy who never moved past COBOL...but I think it needs to be super c

I get what you are saying, and on a certain practical level you are right, you can't be that guy who never moved past COBOL...but I think it needs to be super clear that you can accept the churn (as necessary) but you sure as hell don't embrace it. Embracing it, IMO, is how JavaScript dev got to be what it is. Broadly speaking, a lack of nuance and temperance is the great blight on development.