[bitbasher]

> ... a sort of innocent arrogance that comes with people who boldly claim that renowned, well-adopted frameworks or technologies are straight up bad or a non-improvement over yesterday’s tech.

There's a sort of innocent ignorance that comes with people who assume well-adopted or renowned frameworks or technologies became renowned due to positive virtues and not due to external factors at the time.

React was Facebook's reaction to Google's Angular, which was a reaction to backbone and others at the time. At that point, it became a company pissing contest for developer mind-share that embroiled developers in hype trends when the companies themselves were not even using those technologies.

Bootcamps began to teach those technologies because of the hype train and then companies began to hire for those skills because it's what every "new" developer was skilled with due to the massive push by bootcamps at that time (mega rise of MOOCs and bootcamps).

I've spoken to countless founders that made tech choices due to "hiring concerns" and "it's what developers want" and "my buddy XYZ is using it" or "we can't use X because that's the old way".

There's certainly a space to discuss these technologies without being "arrogant" and dismissing what the "majority of developers" use. Maybe the majority is wrong.