With tech trends, over the past 15 years, I was always on the ball 100% of the time until React came along. I started coding Flash/ActionScript games around 200

With tech trends, over the past 15 years, I was always on the ball 100% of the time until React came along. I started coding Flash/ActionScript games around 2004 (which is based on ECMAScript spec just like JavaScript) and I was using ActionScript 3 with types which was very similar to TypeScript but was better (it was simpler with less room for unnecessary type gymnastics). I was a web developer before the term was broadly used, I was a front end developer before the term was broadly used, I was also a full stack dev before it was trendy. I was an early bird JavaScript single page app developer. Early bird Node.js adopter. Early bird NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) adopter. I was always on the cutting edge, adopting new tech as soon as I heard of it but just before it became super popular. I was 100% on target until React came along and I've since been wrong about most trends and yet I'm becoming convinced that it's the trends that are wrong, not me. I say this because complexity has gone out of control and I can build apps faster and simpler using my own home-baked stack than other devs can with React, GraphQL or other trendy tools. Most of my tools/libraries are open source but they get limited exposure to the broader community (in spite of very positive feedback, I can't get past the chicken and egg problem) so I just use them for myself. If you saw how I write apps (with auth, modeling complex relationships between data, automatic real time update, can scale out of the box with sharding on Kubernetes etc...) with very little code, many devs would be impressed want want to use or build something similar from scratch, yet they may never learn of this tooling or this coding philosophy. These days, new tools simply cannot get the initial boost of users that is required to gain traction. It's like they cannot even enter the playing field; no surprise then that they cannot win the game. You can see how the discourse is completely suppressed; there is only one set of tools on the front end nowadays; React and TypeScript. VueJS and Svelte are struggling if you look at job adverts even though they are at least slightly better technically for most scenarios; it does not translate to jobs. I think the reason why there is a dissonance between getting very positive feedback for certain open source tools and there being limited adoption is because, at the end of the day, developers don't have a say regarding what tools they can use in production at the companies they work for; they are completely limited to well-known existing tools. It follows a more general problem we're facing in society now; there is a belief among elite circles that we've reached some kind of singularity; that everything has been figured out and is in its optimal state so no need to try anything else. "Trust the science"; imagine doctors saying that 100 years ago... It says something about how some people perceive this moment in history; they perceive today unlike any other moment before it; whereas in reality, things are very far from optimal for many reasons and we are still in a transition phase.