Popular technology stacks that make your life as complicated as possible:

1) It all started with the Networking stack.
2) Data stacks like LAMP, MEAN, MERN, Serverless, etc. Every stack after this made you hate your job.
3) Frontend Stack
4) Microservices Stack
5) AI Stack.

These stacks often overlap and integrate with each other depending on the project's needs. So you can't simply skip this mess now. This is why some of us want to run into woods and never return to civilization.