Let's face it, the JavaScript ecosystem has gone absolutely bonkers. Just when you've finally wrapped your head around React hooks, someone drops a tweet about how "Qwik is the future" and suddenly you're questioning your entire career choice. Sound familiar? Welcome to framework fatigue—the special kind of exhaustion that only web developers truly understand.
"The average enterprise application now uses 14.5 JavaScript libraries and frameworks; 71% of developers report experiencing 'framework fatigue'
When "Hello World" Feels Like Climbing Everest
Remember when you first learned JavaScript? Those simple days of document.getElementById() and feeling like a wizard when you made something move on screen? Fast forward to today, where setting up a "simple project" means:
- Choosing between 37 frameworks
- Installing 4,328 dependencies
- Configuring webpack (or wait, should I use Vite now? Or Turbopack? Or...)
- Staring blankly at your terminal as error messages scroll by
- Questioning all your life choices
It's no wonder we're tired. We're not just building websites anymore—we're maintaining an entire ecosystem of tools just to begin with a project.
The FOMO Is Real (And It's Spectacular)
Nothing triggers developer anxiety quite like a Medium article titled "Why [Your Current Framework] Is Dead." Suddenly, that project you've spent months mastering feels like a career liability. The subreddit threads don't help either:
- "Anyone still using React in 2025 is basically writing COBOL."
- "Switched to Svelte and now I can build in 3 hours what took 3 weeks in Angular."
- "My cat learned Solid.js and now she's making $250k at a start-up."
Fear-of-being-left-behind creates self-fulfilling prophecies because developers abandon perfectly good tools to avoid being obsoleted.
This isn't just annoying—it's psychologically damaging. We're creating a generation of developers who feel perpetually behind despite working harder than ever to keep up.