Trendiness is an anti-pattern.

The Kool Kids and the bean-counters love trendiness because they can work on “neat stuff” and pay people less because they’re “working on neat stuff” and won’t quibble about depressed salaries when they’re young hipsters.

Once you get about 3–5 years’ experience, let alone 35, you appreciate building on shared foundations that are widely known, warts and all. When you’re battling with NooTrendy.js 0.3 (or even 1.0, lately) and you run into a problem, you can’t be sure if you’re doing it wrong or you’ve found a bug, and you resent getting pulled out of your concentration zone (and your schedule) chasing it down.

George Katsanos, in another comment on this, noted that “we’re complaining about the hobbyist, amateurish, quality of plugins and libraries”. That happens regardless of language, but JS seems particularly severely afflicted. Professionalism would be a usefully welcome, yet wholly foreign, concept.