[andrew-dc]

I feel the pain here. Most the people I know who have been in the game for a good while every so-often remark: what was so bad about js, html, and css? ;)

Of course, the reality is far more nuanced than that.

All this said, I would strongly recommend anyone who's running into this front-end burnout phase to give Svelte a serious look. And no, I'm not on the take here, it's just my personal experience.

Now, Svelte won't solve all of the OP's woes, cause yeah, you still need some tooling, and to get up to speed with some new hotness. But Svelte is about the closest 'framework' I have messed with that feels like simple js, html, and css - without loosing all of the hard fought advances in front-end. All of the new-skool tech without the feeling of over-engineered BS.

For context, our ui team (just 3 people) have built a component library for our entire org, which includes many teams and deliver ui modules seamlessly across vast legacy applications. I can't imagine pulling this off with any of the other stuff I have used.