> What's not fun is learning 10 different ways to handle promises, 4 different build tools, several frameworks, and dozens of new libraries over the course of a year just to keep up. By the time you reach a level of mastery over one of these tools, it's already been replaced by something else! I mean it's great that the tools are getting better, but it's really painful to deal with the constant churn.

I feel your pain, but on the other hand:

- tools with enough users are not going away, even if they're less actively maintained

- it's not like sticking to HTML + jQuery is desirable if you need to build a complex UI