If you look at library popularity more broadly, you’ll find over longer periods of time only those people enjoy working with actually continue to grow regardless of previous momentum. People really do move on if it doesn’t work well enough for them.

Take React form libraries for example [1], redux-form used to be the most popular by far, was followed up by react-final-form from the same authors so people naturally flocked to that. But that is now clearly seeing a decline as react-hook-form, a library that started from zero, is a lot more pleasant to use.

[1] https://npmtrends.com/final-form-vs-formik-vs-react-final-fo... (set to 5 years)