Following trends is why 99.9% of developers are useless and should never hold an engineering title.

Not really. The UK government has never supported the use of JavaScript in its web services and has heavily invested in design systems which use html and css with accessibility at their core.

Just because the rest of the industry has been high on JS doesn’t mean everyone has.

Just watched the recent DHH keynote at Rails World, I might not do Rails, but fully on-board with his point of view with where modern Web has gone.