I feel the same fatigue. But on the other hand: looking at the boiler plate to get a web backend running I honestly don't see that much of a difference. Granted my experience is mostly limited to the Java ecosystem (specifically Spring) but just by looking at alternatives like Laravel (PHP) or Elixir (Erlang) or Django (Python) I don't see much difference when it comes to boilerplate.

Developers seem to have this romantic notion that everything used to be so simple but it seems like history is just repeating itself. I'm sure programmers of the 70s and 80s said the same about desktop development in the late 90s.

That being said: It's baffling to me that browser vendors can't agree on advancing the technology on their own. Why do we have to wait for the ECMA and CSS standard to evolve and instead use shims to get where we clearly want to go?