The Infinite Framework Treadmill

The web development circle of life in all its painful glory. Thirty years of "innovation" and what do we have to show for it? A new framework every Tuesday designed to fix the problems created by last Thursday's framework. Meanwhile, jQuery—that ancient relic we've been trying to kill since Obama's first term—is still powering most of the internet like some unkillable cockroach after a nuclear apocalypse. The punchline isn't even the timeline of increasingly niche frameworks; it's that after all our architectural patterns, virtual DOMs, and reactive state management, we've somehow ended up exactly where we started. It's not progress; it's just fashion with semicolons.