[skrebbel]

I'm always confused when someone calls out a large group of people for not having a consistent opinion.

Gotta love Americans! They flip-flop on major aspects of policy making. One day they spout "ban guns!", the next they say "If need be I'll defend my right to bear arms with violence!"

[Cookingboy]

I recently started doing a lot of work with React and JS, coming from years of native application development.

It does seem like the general "trend" or "consensus" in the JS community is very inconsistent and easily influenced by a few well-linked blogposts or highly upvoted StackOverflow answers, which themselves are very often written by people with honestly limited software and system engineering experiences. Sometimes a "best practice" in 2017 would be considered awful and "should avoid" in 2018.

Btw Americans opinions do flip-flop on major aspects of policy making, due to all reasons from media coverage to current events. Look at American's support for the Iraq War for example. Herd mentality, leader worshipping, cargo cult, etc are just as prevalent in public policy discussion as it is in software development community.

JS/React, due to having a community that's larger and arguably less experienced than most other community, just show more of the same symptoms.

[qaq]

It's hard to compare to anything else given the size of the community and history.

[lhorie]

I don't think GP is criticizing the flip-flopping, but rather the "arrogantly spouting" part.

[allover]

Well it's the generalisation about a large community that is the problem, whether put arrogantly or not (the arrogance only makes it harder to scroll past and ignore). GP put it well:

> I'm always confused when someone calls out a large group of people for not having a consistent opinion.

[lhorie]

The way I read OP was "given that X flip-flops, it's weird some people talk as if X is constant" (i.e. acknowledging the inconsistence in opinions and, further, calling out those that don't)