Let's use an analogy to maybe get closer to why churn on the front-end tech is so high: A few weeks ago I was reading a discussion on which musical instruments

Let's use an analogy to maybe get closer to why churn on the front-end tech is so high: A few weeks ago I was reading a discussion on which musical instruments are hardest to play. Someone said that they are all equally hard, because if the instrument is easy to play, people will write more complex music for it. I think the same happens in front-end dev. It happens here because it's obviously exposed to users and we want to a) follow fashions and b) wow our users. As soon as tools get more powerful and we start to master them we'll start to push the boundaries and everything becomes a pain again and several people will write frameworks or tools to make it easier.