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I kind of wonder about the opposite. Back in the 90's when open source really took off, open source projects were useful things like Linux, MySQL and GCC: open alternatives to commercial software. Now that open source has become "important", though, we see more and more things like Spring and Angular: idiotic useless "frameworks" that seem to exist solely for the sake of existing and padding resumes.

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Spring was released 19 years ago. MySQL was released 26 years ago. It's not such a big difference as you're claiming, especially since MySQL really took off around version 4 or so.

I'm not sure you can put Spring in the same category with Angular, plus Spring definitely filled (fills?) a niche that's useful: pre-built components for Java, especially for enterprise development.

Spring framework is "useless"? It's used by well-known companies like Netflix and LinkedIn as well as by a lot of Fortune 500 companies.

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