I dunno, here is an entrant from 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071024

(not a JS dev myself, but I read HN so I see those posts every once in a while..)

The most urgent needs in frontend web dev were components and state management.

Vue and React won out, and I still don't see that changing for the foreseeable future on the vast majority of corporate web apps. The remaining split is just coke vs pepsi. Basically, a meaningless distinction and stable.

I don't doubt there will always be new tools, but a lot of HN doesn't see the forest for the trees when it comes to web. So many people chime in ignorantly just to be bullies and spread FUD and self-promote. I think that strategy not going to work again for a while. Everyone is very burned out on that overplayed game in all aspects of life, not just web dev.