You're working with a different scenario than the one sketched above, though the article is drawing a premature conclusion. The scenario implies that, since yo

You're working with a different scenario than the one sketched above, though the article is drawing a premature conclusion. The scenario implies that, since you're learning multiple skills at once, it takes a long time to reach satisfactory results with any of them. Humans aren't invulnerable to poor feedback, especially adults, so they have a tendency to give up early in learning an individual skill if it takes too long for satisfactory results. Since you're actively judged on your results, feedback is inevitable, and poor feedback is probable. The scenario itself is shaky on a few things: Giving poor feedback isn't a given, some places are instead overly happy to see any form of progress (mostly verbally, though). I'd even say giving poor feedback to beginners is a sign of unprofessionalism (but this doesn't help anyone who experiences this). A combination of skills may provide a different type of satisfactory result. A highly performant solution requires a far higher understanding of programming. A clean, useful webapp can be made with various skills at "meh-okay" levels. I don't agree with the scenario either drawing the conclusion that it's the "full-stack" part and not the "too many expectations in too short of a time" part, which applies to any field. You'd generate the same burnout if you'd expect translators to do multiple languages baseline, rather than just X->Y and Y->X.