How have you managed to find work consistently? It seems like everyone is looking for 3-5 years of react specifically as a minimum on most job postings near me. I would love to get away from React, it is really not my favorite to worn with.
I was very lucky to get referrals from a few folks that I social dance with in Seattle after that layoff, and I ended up with a job offer in a product area I knew very little about (networking, routing, programmable packet processing middleware with eBPF etc.)
Despite my lack of domain knowledge, I was told I received the offer largely because of my demonstrated proficiency in Rust (I did all the interview whiteboarding sessions in Rust), and although this isn't something that is measured "officially" in the interview process, because there are many hours of me live programming online[2] for people to feel confident that they're not hiring a dud who has hyper-specialized in passing interviews which are not representative of real-world workloads.
I general advise people in your situation to start looking further down the world's dependency tree, where things churn less frequently, and where the skills you acquire will last longer. This can be easier said than done, but since my very first job was as a React developer, I can at least share my path down the dependency tree:
Frontend (React etc.) -> Backend (web APIs) -> Infrastructure / Platform / DevOps (started with a cloud automation focus, moved gradually towards to bare metal) -> Networking (I'm in ur VPCs, directing ur packets)
All of this being said, the job market right now is very tough. I doubt I could walk out of this job and into another within 3 months like I did this time last year.
[1]: A lot of my technical blog posts on https://lgug2z.com/articles around that time refer to this layoff
I actually don't agree, being "further down" the dependency tree, the more likely you are to be exposed to new concepts and stay agile as a developer. I moved from a backend .NET background into frontend and have found the faster pace more refreshing with the evolving web and mobile platforms. Staying with .NET would have had me writing the same EF code over and over in almost a time capsule, at least talking to old colleagues.
I feel like i'm more valuable now, because i've been through a few tech stacks and understand the benefits and drawbacks of each.
I do have to work with React from time to time. But it isn't my main focus. I usually work implementing backend systems (with Go, SQL [Postgres], Redis, etc.) and infrastructure as code with Terraform.