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> I've been spending a lot more time thinking about architecture and system properties.

I've seen many bad developers become awful architects whose plans are completely impossible to put in practice. How do you know your higher level skills are actually any good?

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I don't know but I'm less wrong than I used to be.

More focused, better at reasoning about context.

Maybe good architects learn by starting as awful architects? Consider giving them more time.

I think you aren't necessarily the best person to evaluate yourself. Unless you are some kind of superior human being.

Is 6 years enough to think they won't improve?

What's your point? That it's not a skill? Having a system behave acceptably as it grows does not count? Getting paid for it does not count?

Fine. Don't do it. Wait till you get a certification. No one's forcing you to think about these things.

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