I think that culture will happen somewhere anyway, and FE being the battle ground is probably because it's the most visible part of the experience. I mean: som

I think that culture will happen somewhere anyway, and FE being the battle ground is probably because it's the most visible part of the experience. I mean: some people will want to reinvent the wheel, and preferably carve their name in some monument while doing so. And there will also always be an impulse to create busywork as it's the tide that rises all the boats, inflating the workforce in the field. The staggering costs of breaking APIs is to some a feature, not a bug, and the field will attract more and more like-minded people who then accelerate that trend. To note, BtoB focused startups usually go for a completely different FE stacks, including long deprecated ones, or even plain staticly generated sites wherever they can get away with it.