I'm Not a Developer, I'm a Professional Deprecation Manager

!RANT

I finished a feature last week running on React v19. Today, I logged in and the entire build chain is broken.

My job is no longer to solve business problems. My job is to frantically run on a greased treadmill just to prevent my current node_modules folder from collapsing into a black hole of obsolete packages.

Frameworks are born, adopted, and deprecated faster than a fruit fly's lifecycle.

My package.json file is now 80% dependencies, 90% of which have a giant red vulnerability warning.

I now have 17 different, highly-opinionated CSS-in-JS solutions installed because one package in the chain demands it.

I just want to build something that lasts longer than a single quarterly report. Stop making Framework Z to fix the problems you created in Framework Y!

++ if your life is just one long npm install followed by an immediate npm update.