The teams that were the most efficient, and happiest with their day to day were the ones which picked frameworks with good documentation, a plethora of online resources, and ignored the latest shiny toy on the market.
One of my running jokes/not jokes is that one day I'm going to hire a personal trainer, but then instead of having them train me, I'm just going to ask them a million questions about how they convince people who have never been 'in shape' how good it's going to feel when they are.
Because that's what it often feels like at work.
You learn the latest shiny tech, then change jobs to a new company using your sparkling resume, self-selecting for companies that like the beautiful sparkles in your resume, then you get to work with other like-minded sparkle tech lovers.
At what companies do resume padders end up in?
Quote from elsewhere in thread: “Whatever is the new thing, jump on it hard and fast like your life depends on it.”