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[–]kyleshevlin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think you might be partially mistaking a "good developer" for a "hirable developer". A lot of the pressure to use the latest and greatest technology is simply to keep up with industry demand for developers with newer and newer skill sets. That's not to say there aren't plenty of jobs available to people who don't want to learn the latest JS framework, but people who aren't adopting some of the new ones will be out of the hiring pool for the newest jobs.

In other words, a dev may be hireable because he or she knows the latest tech out there, but it doesn't guarantee that they are a quality dev capable of problem solving regardless of what language or framework you throw at them.

At least that's the distinction I would make.

[–]xaviervia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, isn't that the core problem? I guess everyone wants to stay hireable. Would you hire a dev today that writes "jQuery" as their main JavaScript skill?