I think it is a problem that the frameworks smooth over many issues around working with web standards, which means that less successful patterns emerge around working directly with the DOM.
I suspect that amongst all of the patterns, frameworks, and learnings gained from the Nodejs era of web dev, there exists a far more cohesive and scalable way to build front-end app directly on web standards, but this mode of development can’t compete with the shear number of developers working on solutions layers above the standard platform. These solutions have an allure because they have more elegant workflows for very immediate problems (I need to update the DOM based on this state change) but the unstandardised nature of these solutions don’t really help the ecosystem advance to its potential.
I suspect that amongst all of the patterns, frameworks, and learnings gained from the Nodejs era of web dev, there exists a far more cohesive and scalable way to build front-end app directly on web standards, but this mode of development can’t compete with the shear number of developers working on solutions layers above the standard platform. These solutions have an allure because they have more elegant workflows for very immediate problems (I need to update the DOM based on this state change) but the unstandardised nature of these solutions don’t really help the ecosystem advance to its potential.