It's a lot better now, but there was absolutely a period when it felt like there was a new framework/library weekly. This was 5-10 years ago. 'Cambrian explosio

It's a lot better now, but there was absolutely a period when it felt like there was a new framework/library weekly. This was 5-10 years ago. 'Cambrian explosion' was the term going around. A lot of it was in react space, with router libraries or the newest data store being the thing you needed to be using. Definitely turned me off react, personally at least. The angular.js/angular2 migration was also a big pain around this time as well. There was a lot of social pressure from influencers on youtube and various social media that you NEEDED to switch now. This was the new hotness, it was blazing fast, anything else was obsolete tech debt. There was one instance of 'or you should be fired' that sticks with me. I think we're just used to the hyperbole and are all a lot more jaded now. Compare this to the backend, where django, rails, and the others haven't really changed. I haven't felt the need or pressure to rewrite my views/controllers/whatever at all.