Yeah but everyone who learns $FLASHY_LANGUAGE and $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY can put that shit on their resumes and after they've driven the startup into the dust they c

Yeah but everyone who learns $FLASHY_LANGUAGE and $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY can put that shit on their resumes and after they've driven the startup into the dust they can land a job at $FAMOUS_COMPANY. And really it'll be better for your career to embrace this and learn the tech stack by fucking up some unsuspecting startup and then bouncing somewhere big enough to actually use it.