My feeling on the fatigue—as I imagine theirs is—is not that "making new things" is bad in some way. It's that re-abstracting the same problem in different ways

My feeling on the fatigue—as I imagine theirs is—is not that "making new things" is bad in some way. It's that re-abstracting the same problem in different ways has kind of diminished the novelty of frontend development. Where before we were trying to just do things consistently across browsers and had maybe one or two major libraries or patterns to develop expertise for in the market that solved those problems. Now, to be marketable for jobs, you have to accommodate a fairly fragmented market for the same problem. It's less a matter of fatigue related to "Oh sheesh now we have some stupid way to draw 3D graphics and communicate with Bluetooth devices via JS. When are we gunna stop making new things!?". It's more that "Oh golly, another way to piece components together with JS, HTML, CSS and route the pages together, super excited to re-enter the job market when I don't have production experience with Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, Redux, MobX, Vuex, and maybe others I dunno cuz idc". These aren't necessarily perfectly true statements, and nobody is necessarily forced to do anything, but it's fucking boring to hear about, and boredom leads to fatigue. That said, it's pointless to comment about and I do share your sentiment that the equally as frequent echo of pessimism isn't worthwhile.