I don't disagree with the point being made but it should also be noted that React and Vue are both 11 years old.
Hell, even Meteor.js (anyone remember this one?) is still around and being updated.
Hell, even Meteor.js (anyone remember this one?) is still around and being updated.
In both cases you'd need to spend serious time moving to newer deps, rearchitecturing, probably moving to Vite, etc.
I'm not sure how you avoid it in any framework without rawdogging pure HATEOAS and vanilla concepts. Recently I've gravitated towards Django and HTMX and its felt quite refreshing.
Keeping your tech stack up to date inevitably brings some pain and suffering along. I do wish more frontend frameworks cared about backwards compatibility.
The web dev influencers really push the latest and greatest memes. One day they are putting out a video of how Firefox is the worst browser in the world because it doesn't support some niche variety of CSS gradient and the next they are gushing over something like Zen (a Firefox fork).
Last year, after 10 or so years using Node, I concluded that JS in the backend was a mistake and I had mostly wasted those years. I'm currently migrating towards another stack.
It's more difficult for the frontend. Inevitably you end up needing JS unless the project works as static HTML with close to no interactivity. I still haven't properly tested HTML over wire solutions though.