It gets worse as a freelancer, due to the fact that for 6 months you may be doing React, then back to Angular then you are on a legacy JSP or ASP project. You r

It gets worse as a freelancer, due to the fact that for 6 months you may be doing React, then back to Angular then you are on a legacy JSP or ASP project. You really can't blame people for wanting to optimize for future market demand and many times it is not clear, who is going to be the winner when in fact most of the time the market splits between two or three technologies that solve that layer of the stack, and then they can be mixed and matched with other layers. I do believe there is a natural curiosity that drives developers to want to learn new stacks, but there is also an underlining fear of not knowing the next big thing and being left out cold in the job market.