You didn't mention your co-workers. In a professional setting, we should mutually learn and teach software engineering wisdom from peers, not just from deep-div

You didn't mention your co-workers. In a professional setting, we should mutually learn and teach software engineering wisdom from peers, not just from deep-diving shiny stuff with headphones on. If there are no peers there who're interested in teaching you or learning from you, then yeah it's probably a dead end.