My belief too, as a grey beard 25 years in. I’ve seen all sorts of shit come and go.
There’s a lot of “slack” in the industry that we get away with. Ridiculous incidental complexity, far-out frameworks, architectural astronautics etc.
But if you care about “adding value” or your business succeeding, tools like Rails/Django are way to go. (And btw, use a RDBMS ffs)
Oh yeah, the RDBMS is the other big pet peeve of mine, but luckily the tide seems to have turned towards those pretty thoroughly.
Yeah the NoSQL tide seems to have been stemmed by people actually trying to use them.