There’s a certain churn to it sure, but I wouldn’t call all the development “sidesteps” I think it’s just the scope of changes that’s staggering. You knew jque

There’s a certain churn to it sure, but I wouldn’t call all the development “sidesteps” I think it’s just the scope of changes that’s staggering. You knew jquery, gulp and express and you were fine, but thats such a low low bar if you take the whole of human achievement in CS. Web developers just re-experience the growth and invention of all the other branches. For example you get virtual dom with react - an idea that’s been in client side’s dev arsenal for quite a while. Webpack/esbuild are re-discovering compilers, etc. It’s all just a process of convergence in my eyes. And if I put it in that way I can cope with it. Any new fancy library comes up - I check ok were have the ideas come from, language, environment etc. Go read that and understand the original concepts, and then watch the web dev slowly move in that direction. To be honest it’s pace is sometimes actually frustratingly slow if anything. You can see some Ideas that have been tested and you think they would be great, but takes time to actually permeate into web dev.