Over the course of the last 2 or 4 years I've had to reflect on what actually motivates me, and what my actual level of experience is, having been in and out of

Over the course of the last 2 or 4 years I've had to reflect on what actually motivates me, and what my actual level of experience is, having been in and out of short sints numerous times over 10 years. I had to accept that I am probably not a senior developer yet, in most companies, despite having done it quite a while and set mt expectations for difficulty and salary accordingly, while I grow into that. I think that's what you probably need to do too. Sure, you may have a spiffy degree or whatever, but if I was dropping frontend to go into game programming, I wouldn't take it as an affront that I'd be back to junior status in that discipline. I also had to accept that tbh frontend skill building isn't that interesting or valuable, and I don't need to tie my ego into that. Systems in general working well and serving a purpose are far more challenging and interesting, whereas React is basically a commodity speedbump that helps serve some other goal. Every well-voted comment here implies you need a bit more humility, and I agree. Maybe you do have great skills, but it would probably have been worth sitting on that mid-level frontend job for a while and prove that, because if you do get a senior title at the next company, I feel like it would be basically just a lie, and represent at most what you'd have been doing anyway. Moving up from that mid-level would be much more impactful. On the other hand, I could be missing the fact the work opportunity provided could simply be so weak as to stall growth in general. Growing react skills is a trite endeavor, but if your work is so banal to the point of absurdity, ya it's fair to bail if you just can't see how you'll advance that. If you were hoping for a semblance of problem solving, but all you're doing is literally taking photoshop documents and writing html to show them, that's a tough thing to stick out