It is plain and simple, Kids. I'm 52 - been programming professionally since the 70's when I started writing C code and getting paid for it in 5th grade. Our "professional" is writing glue code, and how it is done and what hoops are jumped through simply do not matter: all that matters is the final shipping product, widget, or logical dodad works for the immediate marketing moment.

I speak from enviable experience: game studio owner at 17, member of original 3D graphics research community during 80's, operating system team for 3DO and original PlayStation, team or lead on 36+ entertainment software titles (games), digital artist, developer & analyst for 9 VFX heavy major release feature films, developer/owner of the neural net driven 3D Avatar Store, and currently working in machine intelligence and facial recognition.

Our profession is purposefully amateur night every single day, as practically no one does their computational homework to know the landscape of computational solutions to whatever they are trying to solve today. Calling us "computer scientists" is a painful joke. "Code Monkeys" is much more accurate. The profession is building stuff, and that stuff is disposable crap 99% of the time. That does not make it any less valuable, but it does render it quite ridiculous the mental attitude of 90% of our profession.

Drop the attitude, write code freely knowing that it is disposable crap, and write tons of it. You'll get lazy and before you know it, you'll have boiled down whatever logic you do into a nice compact swiss army knife.

And the best part? Becuause you'd stepped off the hype train, you'll have more confidence and you'll land that job anyway. If they insist or require you to learn and know some new framework: so what? you're getting paid to do the same simply crap over again, just more slowly with their required dodad. Get paid. Go home and do what you enjoy. This is all a huge joke anyway.