It’s true that there are a lot of different ways to do the same thing, but the good news is you’re doing the same thing and the difference is mostly just syntax. Someone who has used Redux extensively can get up and running with Zustand in no time, and vice versa. Likewise React Query and Apollo Client are basically the same thing.

Build tools are a bigger issue, but fortunately most front end devs don’t actually need to deal with them all that often.