Just like every single trend that came before, they said you would be left behind:
If you didn't embrace OOP
Test driven development
Behavior driven development
Events driven development
Pants in head driven development
SOLID
DRY
Cloud first
Virtualization everything
Microsservices
Serverless
Everything js
Everything ts
Everything Microsoft
This will never stop.
You either let someone be in the middle of you and what you want to accomplish, or you will be left behind.
Think about the most mediocre person you know. Now remember 50% of people around you is dumber than that
No serious person would make fun of this emotional reaction. It seems technology had something going on, and it quickly got flooded by incompetence and greed.
We have all been deeply involved, constructed careers and sharpened our tools with technology and hopefully for the benefit of technology.
I can only imagine how deeply sad the current state of software is for those talented individuals that helped to carry it to here.
Some of us can at least hide it with cynicism because there is not much at stake, but emotional honesty is very much appreciated.