I agree with a lot of your points, and it's one of the reasons I haven't focused on learning Angular, React, Vue, or any of the Javascript 'build' systems. I do

I agree with a lot of your points, and it's one of the reasons I haven't focused on learning Angular, React, Vue, or any of the Javascript 'build' systems. I don't have a pressing need to use any of them and they will be replaced by something else in a few years. Regarding machine learning, that field has been hijacked by the hype train and over half of what people post online about various ML techniques is just wrong. 'Allergic to learning' may actually mean that you are immune to bullshit. In that case the best approach for learning a topic you care about is to go to the seminal work / first papers and focus on understanding it and reproducing it, then evaluate for yourself whether the reality lives up to the hype.