Sure, but is it really progress to swap our tooling around every couple of years? Do you know what users think about the progression of spaghetti js, to jquery,

Sure, but is it really progress to swap our tooling around every couple of years? Do you know what users think about the progression of spaghetti js, to jquery, to backbone, to angular, to ember, to react, to svelte, to htmx? They don't think about it. It literally does not matter to them except that your site may have better (or worse) performance and fewer (or more) bugs.