Fact is that you will get 30 different answers from 100 different people, and even with same answers from different people, you'll get different reasons for why

Fact is that you will get 30 different answers from 100 different people, and even with same answers from different people, you'll get different reasons for why they chose that answer. No, you won't get some silver bullet that's going to propel you to the top in 5 years. I don't (possibly mistakenly) think that's the point. You're going to get a list of criteria specified on a person-by-person basis that speaks to their personal experience as a junior dev turned senior, a junior rising through the ranks, a senior mentoring lots of juniors, etc. Most of the information given will probably be valid. It is then up to OP to parse through the information, and they'll have to figure out what's most applicable to their situation.