Maybe we could say something a bit similar about Express.js and other "boring technologies".
Some people on the React team deciding in 2027 to change how everyone uses React again is NOT exciting, it's an exercise in tolerating senior amateurs and I hate it because it affects all of us down to the experience of speaking to under-qualified people in interview processes "um-ackchyually"-ing you when you forget to wrap some stupid function in some other stupid function.
Could you imagine how incredulous it would be if SQLite's C API changed every 2 years? But it doesn't. Because it was apparently designed by real professionals.
I think "boring software" is a useful term.
Exciting things are unpredictable. Predictable things aren't exciting. They're boring.
Stock car racing is interesting because it's unpredictable, and, as I understand it, it's okay for a race car to behave unpredictably, as long as it isn't the welds in the roll bars that are behaving unpredictably. But if your excitement is coming from some other source—a beautiful person has invited you to go on a ski trip with them, or your wife needs to get to the hospital within the next half hour—it's better to use a boring car that you know won't overheat halfway there.
Similarly, if a piece of software is a means to some other end, and that end is what's exciting you, it's better to use boring software to reach that end instead of exciting software.