Not at all. You're just not hearing so much about that kind of thing because, in my opinion, we've beaten that dead horse already. The fact that building simple CRUD apps can be done quickly, reliably, and efficiently without the need to be on the cutting-edge of JavaScript wizardry is amazing, but it also means that you probably won't hear about it on Hacker News because it's not what "hackers" (in this case I mean people who like to experiment with new technologies) are getting into.

The only reason why this is becoming more of a "thing" nowadays, at least on blogs and in the media, is because the idea of creating a web application that actually does stuff entirely with JavaScript is a relatively new idea, at least in practice on a grand scale. As a job, many web developers (myself included) use JavaScript only when absolutely necessary, and it's really just to make things "look nice". At work, JavaScript is not the thing that drives our entire application (in fact we have more than a few tests that ensure our apps' critical functions work even when JavaScript is disabled in the browser). But I've been experimenting with Ember, Electron, et. al., and it's pretty cool what you can do nowadays with JS alone. These new toolchains have brought and will continue to allow entirely new genres of web applications to be developed with ease, meaning my job gets a little more interesting. We'll probably always have/need CRUD apps, but as a web developer, your fate is no longer sealed in writing CRUD apps for the rest of your life. That's pretty neat!