Failed attempt of being funny aside. The struggle is real for many developers. Many (if not most) of us are self-taught and we like to explore how deep the rabbit hole goes, which inflicts many episodes of analysis paralysis upon us, and it takes a lot of willpower to stay on course. The fear then becomes what if any given choice will be obsolete once we launch our products, given how fast the technologies move forward, especially JavaScript ecosystem.

So in my opinion and all honesty, I still prefer React+Redux (and Angular for some of our apps) because it's the safest bet that they are in for the long run and won't be obsoleted by shiny new library of tomorrow.

"explore how deep the rabbit hole goes, which inflicts many episodes of analysis paralysis upon us"

Again, this isn't JavaScript's fault. Go to Java, Python, or Ruby (incidentally, with JavaScript, they're all languages that came out in the mid-90s) and you'll find a similar breadth of library options.

The problem is, where there is breadth, you think you see depth. Just because there are dozens of frameworks doesn't mean there are dozens of new things to learn. Functional-reactive programming isn't a new concept. Virtual DOM diffing isn't a new concept, and it's also not one that is difficult to understand.

Perfect is the enemy of good. What you're talking about is just being inexperienced. It's just being a junior programmer and has nothing to do with JS.

I think this is spot on. And is hard to understand while working for yourself and thinking your knowledge may become obsolete if you don't know the latest trending tech.

If your knowledge is becoming obsolete, then you weren't really, actually learning the concepts, you were just copy-pasting recipes.

You might have misinterpreted what I tried to say. I was talking about languages/frameworks, not the theory behind them. I don't think is feasible to go to a interview for a job that asks for node expertise saying you know the concepts behind node but you haven't used it yourself in a project.

I think it is reasonable, and I've actually gotten jobs that way.