It&#x27;s scary that if you don&#x27;t jump on <i>some</i> kind of framework bandwagon, you&#x27;ll be half as productive as framework devotees within 4-5 years.<p>When I joined my current team in 2015, they were still using Python Paste and jQuery for everything, while I was well-versed in Angular + a modern Python server framework.  Armed with my modern libraries, I could do more in 1 day than an average teammate could in a week.  In other words, my team lost a <i>staggering</i> amount of productivity over the past 2-3 years, just because they were hanging onto old ways that were still legit even in like 2011.  And it&#x27;s obvious that the half-life of frameworks is only decreasing over time.<p>What will happen when an average framework&#x27;s half life is 1 year? Or 6 months?  Humans aren&#x27;t built to adapt so much, so quickly.  I can gain proficiency with a new library in 3-4 months, but what happens when I get tired of doing that?  Will I just fade into the background as some high school kid outproduces me 5:1 simply because he was lucky enough to learn FrameWorkABC a couple months ago while I was busy with a personal issue?<p>Hopefully by that time, the singularity will be so close at hand that we&#x27;ll have bigger fish to fry, like basic income, or something.