I’m not sure what exactly has changed - I feel like software development has been mostly stagnant since the 80s. Most everything web-dev wise is just rehashed ideas from 30-40 years ago, so I doubt they have too much to catch up on.
The previous commenter is probably correct in one sense. Whatever version of React I was working with in 2017 is surely unsupported now and lol-nobody-uses-that-anymore-grandpa. And maybe everyone works with NextJS or Vue or Svelte or NewerJS.
But, at the same time, I’ve been programming long enough to understand that experience with a particular framework isn’t specifically valuable. The ability to learn and understand how software works and then help build/improve it is valuable and transferable.
Also, perhaps my least favorite part of web development is the ”everything is an app now” shift that happened however many years ago.
I kind of just maybe want a job writing high quality, accessible, rigorous html and css? Is that a thing? Jobs for companies that leverage static site generators maybe?