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I'm pretty sure you have misused the word literally.

Try to update a one year old npm project and you will find that literally 75% of the code in node_modules changes, and also that the app no longer works.

And then it was yarn. And then npm again.

Sure. But learning a new framework is like 100th on the list of hard parts of being an engineer. Its new incantations but ultimately the loop of solving business problems with automation is precisely the same.

100% of my team had basically zero C++ experience before joining. Our application is developed entirely in C++. I didn't care one bit because learning the programming idioms is so trivial compared to the actually hard stuff.

Ecosystem, sure, but I am still using the JavaScript I learned x years ago when I need to see how something is implemented in Angular or React under the hood, etc.