No advice, I feel the same. The industry has gone to shit and it's crossed the point of no return. The only real innovation has been with AI. Everything else is an endless reinvention of the wheel. Most of the skills I've learned are equivalent to underwater basket weaving. OOP was supposed to manage complexity but it actually creates more complexity. Imagine going back to the 70s and talking to a developer learning C and Scheme. How depressing to tell them no improvements will be made over the next 50 years and languages will actually get much worse.