It seems there's something about the JS system that either encourages very granular/tiny libraries or makes it really easy. There's other ecosystems like Java+

It seems there's something about the JS system that either encourages very granular/tiny libraries or makes it really easy. There's other ecosystems like Java+Springboot where you can go 2-3 years only doing minor/patch upgrades without too many changes. React is on version 18, released in 2011. Springboot is on version 2, released in 2014.