First, you don't have to follow hype, but listening to it is how you know where your ecosystem is heading.

Second, there is way more to an ecosystem that hype. Api, compat, deprecation, new features...

If you never created an web api and have to do it now, you still have to make a choice, hype or not. This choice will have very different consequences if you know only about flask and drf, if you heard of fastapi, or if you get told about django-ninja.

It's the same for every single task.

And even without new things, just learning the old ones is work. In python you can encounter -o ir PYTHONBREAKPOINT, be put on a project with one of 10 packaging systems, have to deal with pth files, etc.

And it's the same for all langages. It's a lot of work.