Yes, I did exactly this and for the same reasons. I left web development in 2015 when the tooling was starting to get a bit silly. I had an opportunity to move

Yes, I did exactly this and for the same reasons. I left web development in 2015 when the tooling was starting to get a bit silly. I had an opportunity to move into devops and system administration at the same company and team so I took it. I'm still finding it enjoyable and I do like how much more powerful the point of simplicity is in this field.