It’s all relative, though. One of the biggest complaints people have about the JS ecosystem is the lack of legacy: people do move from Promises to async quickly, when React switches to hooks everyone switches quickly, etc etc. For better or worse you can’t say the same about Java.
> people do move from Promises to async quickly, when React switches to hooks everyone switches quickly, etc etc
On Reddit or HN? Definitely in not the real world. Plenty of projects and even recently created 1s don't always use these new ways of working. Even on Reddit when I see a new project getting posted it doesn't have this trait you mention.
And lots of companies are still on Node 14/16 or even older :( only forced to move by e.g. AWS lambda runtime requirements...
And Node developers are still using ExpressJs and promote it all the time. Guess when Express 4 was released? 5 has been in beta forever with no updates. Yet, most promote it and ignore the other options. Lack of legacy? This thing is 10+ years old. It's barely maintained... what's the difference?
There's always legacy and people that live with it.
It's a feature that there's no history now?
And soon we're going to cry about Kotlin developers that don't use the latest idioms... oh give it a few years...