You've captured something important here. There's been a shift from "solve problems" to "create novel patterns." The incentives are all wrong—framework authors get validation from innovation theater, not from boring reliability.
I think part of it is that the web developer community exploded. More developers = more people trying to make their mark = more churn. Everyone wants to be the person who "fixed React" or "reimagined routing."
But when you're actually building a product that users depend on, you realize how much of a tax this is. Every framework "upgrade" that breaks things is time NOT spent on features, user feedback, or actual problems.
The irony is that the best products are often built with "boring" tech that just works. Instagram ran on Django for years at massive scale. Basecamp is still Rails. These teams focused on users, not on having the hottest stack.
What frameworks/tools have you found that stayed stable and just worked over the years?
what's the moderation policy/etiquette for calling out obviously LLM-generated comments? doing so feels like more heat than light, but letting them pass by without saying anything feels like another step towards a dead internet.
I think you've got to handle them on their own merits. Ultimately humans can write like AI and AI can write like humans, but a good answer is a good answer and a bad one is bad. Karma and moderation already have plenty of ways to handle inappropriate answers.
I think the value of the interaction matters. Who ever got an LLM to reply wanted to learn? be thoughtful? argue? what? And will this interaction be valuable for anyone replying to it? reading it? I think yelling at the void and hearing the coherent echo of a million people is not the same as having a conversation.