Agree: for me it's nothing to do with fundamental obsolescence. JS as a language is doing fine and I welcome the new additions in the various ECMA standards.
What I'm not so welcoming of is, for example, the Angular 1.x -> Angular 2, 4, whatever transition. I don't want to have to keep thrashing my projects due to incompatible upgrades.
And I'm tired of the hype cycles. Not so very long ago everyone and their dog was banging on about how React was the next big thing, and now a lot of them are running scared over the patents issue. It seems like almost overnight all I read about now is Vue.js, but I know that in another few months, or maybe a year, everyone will have moved on again.
Fundamentally there's just no incentive to invest, especially not if you have other things you also need to focus on in your work and life.
The easy way to avoid hype cycles is to just ignore the thing being hyped for a few years. I don't know the exact value of a few; five should be enough to clearly tell whether a fad is a failure but you might miss too many new things that are actually novel that way.
What I'm not so welcoming of is, for example, the Angular 1.x -> Angular 2, 4, whatever transition. I don't want to have to keep thrashing my projects due to incompatible upgrades.
And I'm tired of the hype cycles. Not so very long ago everyone and their dog was banging on about how React was the next big thing, and now a lot of them are running scared over the patents issue. It seems like almost overnight all I read about now is Vue.js, but I know that in another few months, or maybe a year, everyone will have moved on again.
Fundamentally there's just no incentive to invest, especially not if you have other things you also need to focus on in your work and life.