For a subset of us, framework authors, open source contributors, etc. It's very useful to keep up to date on the latest trends.
For example, the Angular team has borrowed techniques from React. It helps for them to keep up with things.
For people like me though, let's be honest. I don't need to do the latest thing.
for the majority of cases i've seen, these arguments are to save developers time and the company money.
my gut & feelies tell me there is truth to "it doesn't really matter what technologies you use" but my brain and experience tell me that is objectively false.
It matters a lot eventually, but having an "eventually" to worry about is a nice problem to have.
(There's also a big perspective difference between being an entrepreneur writing initial code for a project vs. an engineer hired to maintain & grow that code. Code quality, architecture, and technology choice matters a lot to an engineer who will be working with it directly. It matters a lot less to a business that can swap out engineers until they find ones who enjoy working on that codebase. The fact that you even have money to hire engineers usually indicates that the existing code is getting the job done. The business only gets screwed when the code quality is so bad that nobody can make sense of it, and the environment changes in a way that requires modifications.)
i take your point none the less- there are contexts where it doesn't matter.
crud is often a feature of frameworks. crud should be an external tool like documention tools (doxygen...).
Not exactly any of these technologies, but it is using more javascript at least. I think the example is pretty awesome actually.
Given only the tech stack, it can go either way, depending on whether the implementor takes the easy, lazy route or actually puts some thought and hardwork into it. The problem is, as per good old Sturgeon's law, 90% of sites take the lazy route, and end up with tangled monstrosities that look like offerings to the Flying Sphaghetti Monster.
(Also, it's interesting how quickly 'cool new tech' can become 'Enterprise' shudder when it's widely abused and misused.)
Is this the hipster corollary to coding? Sure, Java was cool when only 100 people were using it...
