Well i am a Java developer in 2025 and we still use maven, we also got IntelliJ which is miles better than eclipse and the company where I am does hire testers.

The world is not worse, you just ended up stuck in the wrong tech stack with the wrong company.

I do agree that the JS ecosystem is terrible tho, and i was a full time js dev before (now i only do some frontend from time to time) we already have a dedicated frontend team.