[moron4hire]

"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.