yeah there's a lot of fashion trends that this industry follows and it drives me insane.
by "fashion" I mean new, hot frameworks, architectures, providers, or anything which is chosen because it looks fun or might allow some resumes to be meatier. no one makes solutions for their problems anymore, they make problems for their currently-favorite solution.
I've been guilty of it myself in the past but I'm increasingly getting to a point, especially for side projects that I intend to make a few dollars off of, where I just want to deploy a compiled-language site to a VM and point a domain at it.
by "fashion" I mean new, hot frameworks, architectures, providers, or anything which is chosen because it looks fun or might allow some resumes to be meatier. no one makes solutions for their problems anymore, they make problems for their currently-favorite solution.