I don't think anything we do today will be the same in a few years. The JS ecosystem is a hack on top of a hack. Typescript itself is a third party add-on usually compiled by a fourth-party builder integrated by a fifth-party bundler. There's no guarantee of stability there, and odds are the whole stack will continue to mutate.

I used to love AngularJS v1, but that died a quick death and v2 was much more complicated. React took over but was such a limited library in comparison. I'm still hoping it gets superceded by a more holistic framework. Next is headed that way, but it still doesn't handle some things out of the box (like redux toolkit fetch and slice stuff).

I also really miss the awesome power and integration of Visual Studio (not VSCode, the stripped down editor, but the full fledged one). That was such a nice environment to work in, especially building WYSIWYG WinForms GUIs that is directly tied to code. You can right click anything and change its attributes or jump to source. Like Dreamweaver but way more powerful.

At the end of the day, technologies are just fashions. Nothing we do today is fundamentally different than 20 years ago. We run apps or web pages on devices. The languages and stacks ultimately don't matter, the product and UX do.

I don't think it makes sense to become deeply specialized in any particular stack unless it's evergreen, something like C++. Maybe Java, if you like legacy enterprise baggage. But otherwise it's always just chasing fashion trends...

Exhausting, I think. Part of the reason I'm looking for an exit out of this field. We keep reinventing the wheel every few years for no real reason. Just some other huge company or tiny startup wanting their turn.