[JohnBooty]

Yeah it's just wild. I don't ever remember seeing this level of.... sideways.... churn before. Feels like it's been absolute mayhem for close to ten years now.

I thought that for sure, by 2017 or so, we'd have seen a relatively long lived consensus winner like we saw during jQuery's reign.

Instead, it's just been constant roiling.

The roiling is hard to understand because it's not like the other parts of the stack are really mutating that quickly. Backend dev practices/technologies and browser capabilities are not evolving or roiling at anywhere close to this rate. This sort of churn would have made sense during say 1997-2002 when the entire stack was being invented and reinvented and the basic idea of browsers themselves were changing rapidly.