I want to ask your for a tech-stack/paradigm recommendation:

So I am a frontend web developer by trade and I am currently grappling with the following two observations:

* The deterioration of most "modern" software (especially in the web) is incredibly quick. As in, half my browser bookmarks from three years ago just straight up don't exist anymore. GitHub repos that are unmaintained for 8 months usually can't be run/build/executed anymore, or only with a long session of hotfixing and dependency issues. Even "simple" projects of my own (like a jekyll site) can't be ran anymore after a year w/o endless dependency- and deprecation-related struggle.

* When trying to solve simple problems ("I wish I had a program making this easier"), a painful amount of development time is spent working on what The Mythical Man-Month calls "Accidental Complexity". Configs, boilerplate, libraries. Making Heroku play nice with Docker, and make that play nice with Namecheap, and make that play nice with Stripe, and Tailwind, and LetsEncrypt...and so on.

So with these (maybe obvious) observations in mind, what is your recommendation for a tech-stack or paradigm better suited for small problems, MVPs, side projects, and so on?

I am really happy open for anything (languages, paradigms, tech, concepts, ...), the only requirements are simplicity, longevity and ability to build user-facing stuff nicely (doesn't have to be via GUI, though).

Thanks a lot!