With respect, as a full stack dev focused heavily on frontend these days (with react), I think what you've experienced as a blink was in fact a smooth transition over at least a couple of years. Of course, the javascript ecosystem changes more rapidly than most, but I think these things are apt to look exaggerated and very stepped when you're (I assume) checking in once every few months.

If you're working with this stuff day in day out, you see a much clearer and deeper picture where the pieces are added one by one in a smooth ramp, as the superior paradigm gradually replaces the older one in response to the needs of the developers who use it.

You're a JS developer watching "smooth transitions"?

#1 - no way you have more than 25 yrs on this planet...

#2 - I quit pretty hard about 6 months ago, not because JS...

#3 - Working with this shit day in and day out does not make you an expert, it makes you a shit expert. You've been eating the pie of some framework, and you think you know the taste.

#4 - You are right, there are plenty of shit pies out there and they pay well.

#5 - I used to sound just like that. And I have plenty of growing up to do.

#6 - It's NOT PERSONAL, none of it. It's CODE! Hack it!

(edit: formatting + a bit, edit 2: SP, edit #3, no respect :)

I know you don't mean this advice to be personal or offensive, but your assumptions about me are wrong, and so you're starting this conversation with me on a slightly weird footing, and I don't really know how to respond.

We may be more alike in experience and opinion than you realise :-) just start by treating me as an equal, and we can have a fruitful conversation about this stuff. I can probably learn a lot from you, and you from me.

accurate, except I was trying to rustle some jimmies... I get pretty heated about this stuff... I sincerely hope you've got it held down. I sure don't

why not just develop your own framework?