Spot on, while I see problems with many of the latest technologies myself, not EVERYTHING is hype and I am getting tired of people labeling it as such just because they don't want to learn it/make the switch but want to mask it like they would if it wasn't just hype.
I've seen this very recently personally, where I was accused of adopting hype for switching to Swift for a major rewrite of my app, where I'd pretty much start over in Objective-c anyways so I may just as well do it in a safer, much nicer language that's going to be the future of the platform eventually anyway...
It turns out that you don't have to switch - if your current stack works well for you stick with it.
It doesn't make you "less cool".
But it also doesn't mean that somebody else doesn't have a legitimate reason to adopt the new technology, and this is a pretty textbook example of what I'd call a justified switch.
I've seen this very recently personally, where I was accused of adopting hype for switching to Swift for a major rewrite of my app, where I'd pretty much start over in Objective-c anyways so I may just as well do it in a safer, much nicer language that's going to be the future of the platform eventually anyway...
It turns out that you don't have to switch - if your current stack works well for you stick with it. It doesn't make you "less cool". But it also doesn't mean that somebody else doesn't have a legitimate reason to adopt the new technology, and this is a pretty textbook example of what I'd call a justified switch.