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Been that way for a few years I feel. My entire life was cutting-edge JS for 5 years straight around the trends peak. Now it's been a long time since I've come across another developer with a strong opinion about what framework/package manager/compiler should be used.

I think that was all mostly about the, very long overdue, burst of advancements in JS engines that IE was holding back for soooo long. Everyone wanted to make THE library that had the best, most efficient, DOM abstraction possible, while taking advantage of any new speed gains the competing engines would release every week. It was a pretty cool time looking back on it but, the competition in that space has stalled and what's left is good and boring enough to easily get by with on any basic project. It's still not great, but that's just how front-end dev work is.