Exactly, I think one reason why this trend hasn't stopped while most of the fellow devs I know are sick of it, is that JS attracts a lot of new devs. Being new they start developing on JS/React, but they don't have the painful experience and thus have more tolerance until they too get sick of it and try to keep things minimal, but then more new devs start which fuel the never-ending circle.

In the end it's not the new devs' fault of course, but rather the lib authors who don't treat their software as something that needs to be stable among other things.

Personally I try to KISS, but unfortunately on work I have to deal with this mess.