[shados]

the FE world used to be anemic in term of options. Then came Ajax, stronger web standards and eventually ES6, HTML5, etc.

So that was a period of transition where finally all of the stuff the rest of world had was within our reach. But since we were starting (almost) from scratch, we had a chance to make it better. However, to do that, we had to experiment (and fail a lot).

Thats where you saw all these tools as people iterated on it. It slowed down a lot now, and a lot of concepts bubbled up on top and we're down to only a couple of mainstream options (there's a lot of more obscure ones, but that's true in JVM/backend land too, and that's been around for a while).