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> and the shiny object syndrome most JS devs seem to have thats the issue.

That's just the React crowd, which happens to be most of the market.

Over here in Angular land you could have a person come back from parental leave and there would be maybe one major version change which is major only by name, as few things actually differ between them.

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Someone didn’t use angular in the early days or the transition to v2.

That was a horrible time to live in.

One man's trash is another man's legacy app transition project.

I've made decent money on helping those who were late to the party as someone who started out with AngularJS.

Fortunately everyone involved understood this meant a complete rewrite and all the wanted was people being able to read AngularJS code.

Fun times as Google was sounding the alarm for years already and Angular 2+ was also fairly mature.

It may be more prominent with the React crowd but not exclusive. You see it all the time, lets use React, no Vue, no Nuxt, no Next, no this, no that. The constant ecosystem switching is tiring.

Ten years of working corporate and contractor front end gigs and I’ve found that most companies are loathe to update unless there’s a feature they need from something more modern.

Is Singals coming to Angular not shiny object syndrome?

Normally I would agree, but that was a Solid three years after everyone else, when the idea was already mainstream (again).

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