Are most developers living in a cocoon?

Most meet-ups these days are very specific, they are about a specific framework and fanboys/fangirls going all crazy over it and describing that framework as the best thing ever.

There's more to engineering than say React or Angular. People I've worked with over the years (and that's the only basis I can use to comment on) are so accustomed to a framework and that's the only thing they talk about. They often do not step out of their comfort zone and are happy with whatever framework they know.

About me: I like stick to basic principles of programming, write DRY and KISS code. I always look for opportunities to break a big fat monolith into microservices. I never say things for or against any framework and if I've to pick one, it's usually the case of horses for courses.

If I am ever going to have some programming banter, it's usually at a very generic architectural level and not at some stupid framework level. Why are meet-ups not about such simple, but important details? How many engineers you run into are genuinely good at schema design? From my experience, very few, but they can go on and on about a particular framework.

I am not blaming our crop of our engineers here, but the hype culture that we have over frameworks.

Doesn't matter what language or framework you're coding in, you're still writing code. The basics do not change and that's what we should all be talking more about.