[alharith]

React is 8 years old. It's went through 3 major shifts: From react.CreateClass({}) style, to Class-based components, to now Hooks. In between, it's always embraced and tried to allow the community to adopt a more functional way of programming (Honestly, my personal take is embracing the classical-OO style is what made a lot of this "churny" feeling).

But honestly, that's not really that much in 8 years. I think what we are observing is the sheer popularity of React, and how much content is out there, that it feels like every week someone is picking up from some point in the timeline, and it all gets resurfaced and refreshed in people's minds. But those of us who have been here from the beginning would probably say all the improvements have been positive.

Really what has changed rapidly, especially in the past 2-3 years, is the underlying web technologies. I am finding that hard to keep up with.