Ask HN: Do you think I should lie on my resume?

I've had a bad year in terms of employment as a software developer. I quit two jobs. I didn't want to quit either job but I kind of had to both times. I wont go into that but I'll just say that I would do it again and leave it at that. In other words even now I think I made the correct decision, both times.

The problem I'm having though is now I have a sketchy job hoppy employment history. So I just left the second job I quit off my resume entirely because I was only there for a few months. The problem is that makes it look like I haven't been programming professionally for about a year. There's several things wrong with that:

- I have been programming as a freelancer

- I have been teaching programming

- I had been spiraling down into lower and lower quality development teams. By the time I left my last job it was like I was on the bad news bears. In other words, even if I had taken a year off I'd still be way better at programming than a lot of the people I've worked with.

- I had already kind of maxed out on what you need to know for mid-level programming anyways.

I've been looking for a job for the past three months (before covid-19) and I'm not getting much interest. I'm considering just lying on my resume because otherwise it's going to be more starting out at the bottom of a bad news bears team and it's not like I have a huge ego but I just can't take that anymore.

What do you think?