I considered myself a frontend dev 10 years ago, I loved jQuery and Angular 1.x, Sass. I never really caught the Node fever, and it seems like almost everything connected with the JS scene since then has been constant churn and complexity. I moved into infrastructure and data and never looked back.
That said htmx is the only remotely intriguing development I've seen in frontend dev in a decade.
I too loved jQuery, we've used Vue which is on 3.x now and doesn't really seem like it will change terribly much, in the future. It solves all of the things that in jQuery became really difficult while still feeling like there is still a DOM somewhere in there and we're not all that far removed from jQuery style js. Will agree though, most of the newer frameworks I just don't get.
IE is dead, document.querySelector and friends are sufficient where jQuery was needed. Instead of basking in this achievement, frontend tooling has heaped on bloated build steps with thousands of dependencies. According to the current trends this is the standard way to populate a dynamically updated table or serve a static landing page.
That said htmx is the only remotely intriguing development I've seen in frontend dev in a decade.