I agree--I've built a career around Django, which is definitely a boring technology at this point, but there's not really any difficulty in hiring. For front-e

I agree--I've built a career around Django, which is definitely a boring technology at this point, but there's not really any difficulty in hiring. For front-end stuff I've been using React, and while React is a great technology, it did attract a lot of inexperienced programmers initially. Nowadays, React by itself isn't the new shiny, so that effect has diminished, but the magpie-ism has taken on a new form: I find myself on a lot of projects fighting to keep out bleeding-edge JS libraries with > 100 dependencies. It's not hard to build a tool that demos well. It's much harder to build a tool that will withstand the tests of time.