You're going to hit diminishing marginal returns on learning new programming languages. Learning entirely new skills is probably far more valuable at kickme444

You're going to hit diminishing marginal returns on learning new programming languages. Learning entirely new skills is probably far more valuable at kickme444's level. The situation can probably be framed as an exploration-exploitation tradeoff, in which getting more depth of programming knowledge is exploitation and picking up new skills is exploration. Though exploration is typically blind; in this case, kickme444 is experiencing direct demand for his new people/product skills. So I guess my two cents is that he's making the right move.