I think that's actually not unusual or even wildly unreasonable shopping behavior in a market where: 1. Many if not most "customers" (JS devs) don't understand

I think that's actually not unusual or even wildly unreasonable shopping behavior in a market where: 1. Many if not most "customers" (JS devs) don't understand how to evaluate quality deeply (thus, quality signals aren't trustworthy, making evaluation more difficult and resulting in further acceptance of using unevaluated products) 2. There's an overwhelming number of choices, with deprecation, replacement, and eclipsing all being fairly common - potentially even year-to-year You kinda just have to try stuff out and work with what you've got.