[jacobsenscott]

I've been doing this about the same amount of time, and yes, everything is the same as it was 20 years ago. Frameworks come and go, but they aren't that different. And you are hopefully mostly writing application code not framework glue. So the framework doesn't matter.

All the popular languages are sadly still descendants of C, just with variations on the strongly/weakly typed spectrum, and if functions are first or second class.

The hard stuff is still identifying requirements, managing expectations, and writing code that can adapt to changing requirements overtime. None of the hard stuff has anything to do with the language or framework you are using.