I very much feel what you're saying. I could spew out quite a few of these sediment layers from our projects as well - lerna comes to mind, for example. We still have that lerna monorepo that somehow still needs to chug along. Just the thought of having to touch that CI pipeline gives me PTSD, something something EFILTER and I don't know what it was any more, yarn workspace, lerna.json: conventionalCommits yadda yadda.

And as I wrote in another reply: of course other technologies are not without issues and have their churn and warts and problems, but the sheer amount of JS hype and tool and framework churn I experienced over the last few years was insane.

It might have cooled down somewhat by now, but I'm burned out. So reading about more churn to fix the churn just rubbed me the wrong way.