I absolutely get the sentiment about things breaking every 2 months and how hype dominated where cool heads should have prevailed… Yet these tools allowed me to

I absolutely get the sentiment about things breaking every 2 months and how hype dominated where cool heads should have prevailed… Yet these tools allowed me to build great things over the last ten years. Only two projects I started professionally were never finished, and one was only because my son was born and I decided to be a stay at home parent. I don’t have this problem of unspeakable dead projects. For all of the warts, this crazy ecosystem has been a productivity power house for my employers. React native is absolutely awful to build things with, but it worked. Unified code from server to web client to mobile client actually worked, and it worked well. That’s crazy. So on one hand I get it. On the other, I feel like we’ve forgotten how much better things have gotten. Building for the web is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was, but it took a lot to get here. Yeah there are still issues and no XML wasn’t the future, but I think it was worth it. I’m probably lucky too though, because I accidentally picked technologies with relatively good staying power. I never did the Angular 2 rewrite, for example. I was deep in React and redux and stayed there for years. I can see this being a lot worse if you didn’t get to transfer as many skills over the years.