A lot of things are over-engineered, but this has always been true. It is not necessarily fair to say that the majority of software engineering jobs actually r

A lot of things are over-engineered, but this has always been true. It is not necessarily fair to say that the majority of software engineering jobs actually require or involve the en vogue tools. 1. Just because tech stacks gain traction in headlines does not mean that they are truly mainstream, but rather that they are of significant interest to the community where the links are submitted/discussed. 2. Recruiters and job ads are written to target software engineers and are gamed towards this goal, dropping buzzwords left right and center, sometimes quite nonsensically. Front-end jobs quite frequently demand that you have experience with Angular, React and jQuery to work on something that turns out to be a Vue.js app, and so on. So this can also make certain tech stacks and frameworks appear more prevalent than in fact they are. So, yes, there are lots of overly complicated tech stacks out there, but no I don't think anyone is screwed. Often those tech stacks will have been chosen to solve a specific business problem and then it's not overly complicated, it's appropriately complicated. If anything, there's just more noise to filter out when selected a place to work. Lots of buzzwords and nonsensical jargon dropping, or indeed questionable decisions for the solution of a relatively simple business problem, are good indicators for places you at which you probably shouldn't work.