[chrysoprace]

There's a point at which these things become Good Enough though, and don't bottleneck your capacity to get things done.

To your point, React, while it has new updates, hasn't changed the fundamentals since 16.8.0 (introduction of hooks) and that was 7 years ago. Yes there are new hooks, but they typically build on older concepts. AWS hasn't deprecated any of our existing services at work (besides maybe a MySQL version becoming EOL) in the last 4 years that I've worked at my current company.

While I prefer pnpm (to not take up my MacBook's inadequate SSD space), you can still use npm and get things done.

I don't need to keep obsessing over whether Codex or Claude have a 1 point lead in a gamed benchmark test so long as I'm still able to ship features without a lot of churn.

[re-thc]

> There's a point at which these things become Good Enough though

Well sure. Like there's McDonalds and let's just not care about health or better tastes. The world keeps improving or you're left behind.

> While I prefer pnpm (to not take up my MacBook's inadequate SSD space), you can still use npm and get things done.

I haven't touched nom in a long time. No it can't get things done. I dread running it and would cancel it before I can wait for it to complete. Luckily we did get yarn, pnpm and then Bun and life is improving.

> To your point, React, while it has new updates, hasn't changed the fundamentals since

They have e.g. RSC i.e. React Server Components? See... point proven. You need to keep up. Things like Vercel force it on you.