Disclaimer: This isn't going to help you, just a self-meta comment about most of the other comments here. I'm wondering if someone else feels like this. --- I

Disclaimer: This isn't going to help you, just a self-meta comment about most of the other comments here. I'm wondering if someone else feels like this. --- It's funny to read all of this, because it always felt like this for me. I think I skipped the "this is fun and easy" part and went straight to the "what is all of this? Why are there so many frameworks? What are all those annotations? How are they all mixed together and somehow this works but only if written in arcane ways? Why is everything so overengineered and complicated?" I also never thought the problems I'm solving are significant in any way. So doing it for the paycheck alone is my default mode of operation. I never stopped feeling confused by the tech I'm using. There is just too much tech. Each new project another round of more tech to learn. As consequence, I now focus on understanding a base layer of project related tech in order to get things done. Most of it is going to be irrelevant with the next project anyway.