That's a good point, and it might indeed be a self-selection kind of thing. I'm not an expert and I don't have the data there. But I don't even mean making a

That's a good point, and it might indeed be a self-selection kind of thing. I'm not an expert and I don't have the data there. But I don't even mean making a transition, you can do nothing but Python or JS and still hit the wall. Because eventually you'll need to understand the lower level concepts to do better, even with higher level languages and libraries. It's the reason that learning to program, and program well, is not 100x faster than it was 50 years ago, despite all the claimed benefits of this or that language or framework or whatever. Eventually you need to know what's going on under the hood. Also worth noting that I primarily use JS in my day to day work, and it does what I need it to do. Not saying super high level languages aren't useful, just that they're not a good starting point IMO.