It's very easy to see why this happens. Because nobody actually knows what they're doing.
There is no logical/mathematical theory around program design. We have no idea if we're improving in optimization, staying the same or even going backwards.
For the shortest distance between two points, we have a theory that defines the best distance: A line. That's an easy target to hit. For the best way to design and organize our programs... there is no theory. It's all made up and opinionated. Without a theory we can never truly know.
Thus we are doomed to forever move in a flat circle creating framework after framework and endlessly having progress move horizontally while wasting effort creating isomorphic patterns without ever knowing if the new pattern is better or worse.
Until the day we have a mathematical theory around program organization that can say Design A is 2.3 times more optimal then Design B. Then on that day... this madness will stop.
But until that day we're all stuck in an endless limbo mouse wheel mind fuck. I look at front end and I suspect that out of all software technologies, front end is one of the few fields that is actually moving backwards. I'd estimate 0.01x less optimal every year then I predict at a delta of 0.5x less optimal from an inflection point it starts to oscillate back towards the natural equilibrium again. Then when it hits equilibrium it will oscillate in the opposite direction again. Endless.
Python is likely one of the most stable technologies imo. It's definitely not remotely close to the MOST optimal state but it's nested too comfortably in a local optima and it will likely be stuck there forever.
There is no logical/mathematical theory around program design. We have no idea if we're improving in optimization, staying the same or even going backwards.
For the shortest distance between two points, we have a theory that defines the best distance: A line. That's an easy target to hit. For the best way to design and organize our programs... there is no theory. It's all made up and opinionated. Without a theory we can never truly know.
Thus we are doomed to forever move in a flat circle creating framework after framework and endlessly having progress move horizontally while wasting effort creating isomorphic patterns without ever knowing if the new pattern is better or worse.
Until the day we have a mathematical theory around program organization that can say Design A is 2.3 times more optimal then Design B. Then on that day... this madness will stop.
But until that day we're all stuck in an endless limbo mouse wheel mind fuck. I look at front end and I suspect that out of all software technologies, front end is one of the few fields that is actually moving backwards. I'd estimate 0.01x less optimal every year then I predict at a delta of 0.5x less optimal from an inflection point it starts to oscillate back towards the natural equilibrium again. Then when it hits equilibrium it will oscillate in the opposite direction again. Endless.
Python is likely one of the most stable technologies imo. It's definitely not remotely close to the MOST optimal state but it's nested too comfortably in a local optima and it will likely be stuck there forever.