It seems like the author has been out of the workforce for several years, came back and realized this wasn't how things were when he left and now he's pissed.

It seems like the author has been out of the workforce for several years, came back and realized this wasn't how things were when he left and now he's pissed. The rate at which technology moves, you can't have any kind of framework that requires huge overhead, no matter how good it is. If people can't pick up and start building stuff with it right away, it's not going to gain traction. Add in decision makers don't allow you to just take a week to learn a framework you think will be awesome for a project you might be working on soon. Time is still money and nobody has the time or patience to learn something which has a high overhead. While I agree this sucks, it's just the way the industry works these days. I do believe there will be a cost to this somewhere down the road, and the collective pendulum will swing back to how the author prefers it.