I'm so fucking done with all the hate the modern web is getting. If you don't need it, don't use it. Shut the fuck up if somebody else uses it, because he needs it.
And that whole war between libraries is so fucking ridiculous. Why do I have to feel bad for using a tool that does exactly what I want, and provides me a great dev experience.
No I am not going to use a stack of 4 technologies because "native is faster". Fuck you. I don't care, and you shouldn't either.

I shouldn't even have the need to rant about this, but I'm just in this constant rut, because I feel like no matter what I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong. I hate it.

You are doing it wrong, obviously

Funny. For me it is the opposite. Everyone seems to praise web dev as the superior way of doing frontend. If someone is talking about frontend, web frontend is even implied.

Native is getting so much hate because you need to learn things specific to a platform.

What do you even mean with the stack of 4 technologies for native?
It is the other way around: Web is a stack of at the very least 3 different technologies. Native is always one tech (per platform).

And there is nothing modern about web tech either because everything relies on the same ancient shit that was invented for a different purpose many decades ago. The modern frameworks that keep popping out every week are just reinventing the wheel again and again. And the wheel is just an abstraction on top of the ancient mess that is called web technology.

The problem is there's more frameworks and approaches than Devs using them, and no-one can agree on a correct approach for a given situation.

It's part of the reason I just stay away from frontend. If it ever settles down and there's an agreed standard to use rather than everyone having their own personal CSS and JS framework, I may put the effort into staying up to date. Until then, it's native CSS / JS stuff for me, and if you haven't got a modern browser, then piss off.

The problem with web dev is that you need to vet every framework or module thoroughly.

There are some straight up trash frameworks out there that some of us got stuck with which makes it painful to keep the pace of development up.