[brazzy]

To me, enshittification also includes the feature bloat that comes from product managers and designers having to justify their salaries, which slowly turns things that were once lean and elegant into sluggish UI goop.

And that perfectly describes what is happening to frontend development.

> We have so many frameworks that you can switch to if React isn't your cup of tea.

Yes, that is what I was alluding to by calling it a "revolving cycle": Dominant Framework A is a bloated mess -> Framework B appears, it's lean and a joy to use -> Developers switch to Framework B, it becomes dominant -> Framework B gets enshittified into a bloated mess -> Framework C appears, it's lean and a joy to use

Happens everywhere in software, but in web frontend dev, it happens a lot more quickly.

[afavour]

What you’re talking about is true and worth pointing out. But it isn’t enshittification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification