[hellwd]

As someone who got sick of old school PHP and server-side rendering, mobile development, AngularJS/Angular/TypeScript madness, backend development, pure database development and what not I can tell you one thing: Everything is in our head and it's all because of the fear of staying behind. Once you start listening to yourself and once you start focusing on solving the problems as simple as possible, you will be happy in doing any kind of work. It's OK to be aware of new technologies, but you should use only those that make you happy and that actually solve the problem in a simple way. Why should I feel guilty if I'm not using some technology? Keep in mind that many technologies, frameworks are just products and the main reason behind the hype is money. Focus on general topics like software architecture, clean code, algorithms, best practices, database design skills and make sure to isolate yourself from hype.

[AndyMcConachie]

As much as I completely agree with your attitude, and try to live it myself, software engineers don't get to make their own tooling choices. That is the fundamental problem here.

We don't get to choose the technology(framework) that will result in the least amount of hassle and easiest to maintain software artifact. Instead, we get stuck using what someone else chose for us.