Makes the most sense in context of what? Do what you're passionate for. And forget about the market being crowded, most 'engineers' can barely switch a compute

Makes the most sense in context of what? Do what you're passionate for. And forget about the market being crowded, most 'engineers' can barely switch a computer on, you need to actually learn the fundamentals. Be one of the people who writes frameworks (tools or whatever) and not one of the people who uses them and that alone will put you above 99.9% of other 'developers'.