I absolutely agree with you on the surface, as I’m of exactly the same mind. However, I’ve forced myself to use a few shiny new things on projects over the last

I absolutely agree with you on the surface, as I’m of exactly the same mind. However, I’ve forced myself to use a few shiny new things on projects over the last couple of years and it’s been a mixed bag. Some new frameworks like Vue have absolutely shrunk development times for certain types of projects by a serious order of magnitude, as we are now worrying way less about state and writing far less code overall. Mutating certain changes just cascades down without us worrying too much and writing loads of code to handle those changes/updates. Hot reloads alone have easily saved countless development hours. Other times, I just feel like I’ve been fighting a framework for hours to achieve something that really should have only take a few minutes. IMO, it’s about having as many weapons in your arsenal as possible and always selecting the most appropriate for the task at hand. You can only really do this if you have a good broad working knowledge of as many tools as possible, to understand their unique strengths and limitations. Typically I just avoid the latest shiny new thing entirely for at least a couple of years until it’s stabilised somewhat. I got burnt early adopting Swift and spending countless unbillable hours updating thousands of LOC every time Apple seemed to break the entire thing with each new release.