Judging by my performance reviews, I’ve gotten way worse at my job over time. They LOVED me as a junior, they despise me as a senior/lead. Only difference is that as a junior, when the boss came by and said “let’s do it this way,” I said wow, cool, teach me! Now I say “No user has asked for this, your design is overcomplicated, and we need to factor in an extra three weeks for the overdue tech debt fixes I’ve been warning you about.” And the reaction towards me actually using my knowledge and job skills is so extremely negative that there goes my confidence. This industry is kinda screwed up.