I think you're right.
TBH I can't even see the real value in companies I see listing jobs on the job sites. I've been trying to talk any path, anything just so I can work. But what good is my work if it's not actually working for the rest of the world. How can I secure my next hit (writing code presses my happy button, idk why I just accept it) if I'm working for someone who noone actually needs? I want to make a change for the world because I need to make a change for myself. I need to work because working feels good, it wakes me up in the morning, it gives me focus, it gives me a sense of success and I actually cherish it. Every little line of code I write is mine, that's why I cryptosign my commits, so they'll always be mine.
Maybe its actually not me, it's the people I can work for.
CreateReactApp was actually declared deprecated in favor of Next.js. I guess I think of springboot as outdated because we have much better ways of routing an HTTP request through buisness logic, going maximum k8s ingress is my preferred way, it scales way better than a springboot monolith.
Edit: the source of why I know CRA is deprecated
"Newer isn't better" is exactly the reason we have so many frameworks and technologies. When filtering a liquid you have to put pressure on it to push it through the filter. Just the same with technology, it's more like an idea, you need lots of ideas to put pressure on the others to find which one is the best one. Springboot came from a time when there were less framworks to choose from, that's the only reason its big, not by merit.
I don't agree that that's the case anymore. Most softwares deployed today are so platform agnostic that the only thing limiting where it can run is the nature of the software itself. It doesn't make sense to run an android app on a cloud vpc because litterally why would you? But since the advent of React, 99% of all UI components we see on screen can have their source in a library the app pulls from, then it could be an phone app, or a website, or a desktop program. Docker revolutionized how code runs on computers so now you can write any buisness logic in any language and then shop around for the cheapest cloud host or onprem hardware you want, you no longer have to consider the computer when writing code*.
I don't believe programmers should be specalized, this litterally only comes from my experience and my opinion, but frankly whether its code to display things on screen or get data from a database or do some deep introspective calculation, it's all the same code, even if its a different language. There's a difference between buisness logic and implementation, any programmer should beable to put together any sort of buisness logic they're asked to do.