Sorry, but I have to disagree here specifically for the js world. The initial versions very often seem to skip the learnings of previous generations of software engineers and re-implement the same functionality and patterns using new jargon.

The effort and time spent in internalising the new jargon to understand examples and tutorials, to me, feels like a waste.

As the frameworks and libraries near version 1 or sometimes even later, they fall back to traditional tried and tested patterns, besides getting rid of obvious bugs.

So yes, like the gp, I look but don't touch until a little later. I hardly see this happening in other languages.