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There's a gradient of kinds of knowledge, between things on one side that are more permanent and closer to "How things work" and on the other side more aligned
by sunrunner 2y ago
There's a gradient of kinds of knowledge, between things on one side that are more permanent and closer to "How things work" and on the other side more aligned with "How to use a tool or abtraction to accomplish task X in environment Y".
Most frameworks exist on the right side, a more abstract and less detail-oriented way of accomplishing task X in environment Y, but as a layer above the details it's really just one person or a group of people's opinion on one specific way to do that, doesn't necessarily reflect the inner workings, and is largely an arbitrary choice about how to structure something (this is all by design, that's why these tools are made).
New frameworks come along with supposed new ideas, but they rarely change the nature of the details (in fact as a layer above they usually cannot), hence the "Seen it all before" feeling. Maybe you've not seen the new structure before, but you likely already know how it works underneath, and likely have seen tens of other people's opinions on how to name X, structure Y, and organise Z.
Getting angry about New Tech is rarely getting angry about New Tech, it's just being tired of "New" tech that sits at the same layer, solves the same 'problems' but with different words but is seen as a serious revolution. Not that new approaches and ideas aren't beneficial, and sometimes they do catch the wind and become almost a standard. But they're still just layers above the details below.
Of course the "How things work" side is also really a result of human decision-making, so down to something like the speed of light it's all just human decisions about how to structure something, but the lower level you get the more permanent the knowledge is. It doesn't change week to week on a whim, it's likely not a short-term trend but a slow and (hopefully) considered evolution of thinking.
Can it be coincidence that the word "revolution" means both a fast, radical social change but also for celestial bodies a complete cycle that brings you back to the same place you started?