A short while back, I quit my job - nice folks, terrible stack. I went to a company that works 100% in AWS, everything gitops, everything pipeline automated. It

A short while back, I quit my job - nice folks, terrible stack. I went to a company that works 100% in AWS, everything gitops, everything pipeline automated. It was shiny and textbook perfect. I got like an 8% raise, but added 5% state income taxes (NH guy working in MA for the first time) Anyways after five months of textbook perfect gitops, I'd had my third conversation with a human being at this company (Manager didn't do 1-1s, team didn't talk, there was no 'watercooler' chat. And this was in a physical office!). They said that if everyone was doing their jobs perfectly, that no one would really need to communicate outside of code commits. Of course, this was extreme and I just picked the wrong place because I got strung up on a shiny tech stack. Something in the middle would have been better. I went back to my original job after five months, even with the crummy tech stack, because the people are social and it seems like they benefit from my presence. I'm glad I did it - I learned a lot, at the cost of suffering some extreme loneliness, doubt, and then self-humiliation to get back to where I was before I started. I recommend anyone try it to at least get it out of their systems. My job is the same, but it seems less bad. Is that a win?