That's been my take. It's something for a few years I've called the "credit mentality"

Aka "pay more later for something you can't afford now"

The problem is that most of these so-called "shortcuts" take as long if not longer to develop and are HARDER to work with... Yet the propaganda they sucker nubes and rubes alike with says the polar opposite.

They're not even less to learn, they're just something different (and IMAO wrong) to learn. The alleged benefits are never sufficient to offset the disasters being built.

Said propaganda driven "media darling" rubbish made all the worse by confirmation bias. Because the amateur got a result -- ANY result -- and lack the skills and knowledge to recognize how badly they screwed themselves, they are unable to even accept the very notion that said result is garbage and they may in fact have screwed themselves.

A potential client I just walked away from was in exactly that mindset. Thus I was "unable to help them" because whilst they were in trouble, and knew there was trouble, they flat out refused to believe the cause. (SPA, React, and Failwind on a website that had zero need for any of them and was roughly six times the code needed to do the job.)