https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34813489
It feels like async / actor frameworks / gui things are permanently in flux. I wish clear winners would emerge already.
In OSS ecosystems it's usually plenty of choices, or nothing.
See NPM registry or choosing DE in Linux.
There are a couple of alternatives, but none of them come close in popularity
These rarely stabilize in the sense you mean, of there being exactly one sensible choice in some domain. (Note difference between "rarely" and "never".)
See also: Web framework, Javascript GUI framework, serialization libraries (easy to write the parser(s), endless combinations of ways to handle the resulting JSON for you), and these are just some big frequent examples that leap to mind. There's a lot of these sorts of things.