1) some of these things (e.g. node, microservices) already peaked a few years back, being overapplied and now the pendulum is swinging the other way
2) others (e.g. Kubernetes, React, monorepo) were developed at large, profitable companies that others wish to emulate (or work at someday), so they find excuses to use them. This case takes longer to reach a point where things swing against it, because everyone wants to pretend their company is the size of FAANG or will be soon, but the same process of overapplication and backlash happens eventually
3) in the midst of all that noise, there are some new things which are in fact a good idea for most developers. I don't know Rust or Go, but perhaps they are examples of that.
The key for us as developers is, unless we wish to work at FAANG, try to spot (3) in the forest of (1) and (2), and don't let (justified) annoyance at (1) and (2) blind us to the fact that (3) is out there as well.
1) some of these things (e.g. node, microservices) already peaked a few years back, being overapplied and now the pendulum is swinging the other way
2) others (e.g. Kubernetes, React, monorepo) were developed at large, profitable companies that others wish to emulate (or work at someday), so they find excuses to use them. This case takes longer to reach a point where things swing against it, because everyone wants to pretend their company is the size of FAANG or will be soon, but the same process of overapplication and backlash happens eventually
3) in the midst of all that noise, there are some new things which are in fact a good idea for most developers. I don't know Rust or Go, but perhaps they are examples of that.
The key for us as developers is, unless we wish to work at FAANG, try to spot (3) in the forest of (1) and (2), and don't let (justified) annoyance at (1) and (2) blind us to the fact that (3) is out there as well.