What changed? More features, more complexity, worse defaults, enterprise stuff, etc.
And did you switch to something else, or just keep using it?
Interested in specific examples rather than “everything was better before.”
Feels like, as it got more popular, it turned from a developer-focused tool dogfooded by the people who worked on it and constantly shipped new features that meaningfully increased quality-of-life and DX into the classic obligatory enshittification-maxed product designed to maximize engagement, lock-in, monetization, publicity, data collection, and control.