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It is kind of gaslighting to say that frontend frameworks don't last more than 5 years when React has been around and popular for more than 10 years and the vast majority of FE jobs today are React.

When I read comments suggesting that frameworks keep changing, it sounds like the kinds of articles which were written 7 to 10 years ago. It made sense to say that back then, the top frameworks DID keep changing. Nowadays it just sounds very strange... It's like complaining about something which is no longer a reality... But which actually turned out to have been a good thing all along.

I actually liked that different companies used different frameworks. It mirrored the reality that no framework is inherently superior to every other framework for every use case. I hate the pretense that React is the silver bullet while simultaneously pretending that it's an underdog struggling for relevance in a world of relentless framework-churn...




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