Realistically, you are. There's a bit of lock-in that occurs here: you've spent X% of your career learning the ____ stack, and there's a huge opportunity cost to switching stacks... so ____'s incentives are aligned to make sure that that X% stays X% over time, that you're learning new ____ stuff, rather than their tech stagnating and you being able to use your now-free learning time to learn a competitor's stack.
I don't mean to be cynical - ____ legitimately want to improve their APIs and the experience of working with their software. But that's what makes the "build an ecosystem" business model so amazing if you can swing it: the crazier your innovations, the more you capture mindshare as people try to keep up, and so you're able to make a great profit while attracting the craziest talent.
Insert Microsoft in the ____'s.
Now, for all the Angular 2 programmers out there, insert Google.
I don't mean to be cynical - ____ legitimately want to improve their APIs and the experience of working with their software. But that's what makes the "build an ecosystem" business model so amazing if you can swing it: the crazier your innovations, the more you capture mindshare as people try to keep up, and so you're able to make a great profit while attracting the craziest talent.
Insert Microsoft in the ____'s.
Now, for all the Angular 2 programmers out there, insert Google.