WTF is an Island - Rach Smith: https://rachsmith.com/wtf-is-an-island/
Reinventing the Wheel for Fun & Profit - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/reinventing-the-wheel-for-fun-and-profit/
@alcinnz web dev spirals around but each twist gets a little higher. There's a lot of hype so VC companies can be flipped. But the core change is to make websites more maintainable and easier for the developers. The same can be said for any language, how much has it changed over the last 50 years? What can Rust do that cannot be done in Fortran? With web dev, we cannot change JS/HTML for another language only transpile or apply a framework
p.s. at work I use React and do not like it