I have to disagree. The ecosystem is what it is because the hipsters left it and it became the spiritual successor of Java’s enterprise-y mindset.

When I think of JS hipster I think of CoffeeScript, Elm, ClojureScript and all the other trendy stuff from a decade or so ago. JS borrowed enough stuff from them to be tolerable and now everything is React and Webpack plug-ins.

Not just techbro/hipsters: programmers have huge egos, when in reality they are just mediocre tradesmen. Like your typical construction worker. There are 10,000 hammer swingers for every architect, but those 10,000 think they are all in the top-10. So we end up with egos and factions creating a tidal wave of mediocre tools, each with just enough fan base to grow large enough to be cancerous. Too few architects with experience at the helm (and trained by the old guard), unfortunately, is the problem.