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> I basically want to get as far away from Node and React and CSS as possible. What's a good path out? .net core or spring boot?
Still, this does not completely skip de design/style part.
So you want to write spagetti in another language because webdev is getting too difficult? In my opinion one should strive to learn their craft well, and if you havent by now, you should very quickly educate yourself out of writing bad code. Otherwise it's a habit that keeps you feeling bad about you and your code and hold you at disadvantage against that competition you are so worried about. But if you think a break…
Go to a smaller company. They are much slower on changing technology.
get a cloud cert in aws, azure or google and basically do dev ops at a large scale. again... tons of money and zero web development.
I somewhat lost interest in new cool frameworks/technologies and somewhat stagnated in "JQuery era".
For me, these three ideas helped:
1) have life outside work. Have some hobbbies/friends/social activities. Do not try to find meaning in work.
2) do something completely different with computers. For example - I started making computer music, coding my own VST instruments in Csound etc...
3) try new technologies in meaningful project. Not just code for code sake. For example: I am currently implementing custom point of sales system for friend who is curating gallery. In this system I have tried to use Vue.js and found it very useful.
So you want to write spagetti in another language because webdev is getting too difficult? In my opinion one should strive to learn their craft well, and if you havent by now, you should very quickly educate yourself out of writing bad code. Otherwise it's a habit that keeps you feeling bad about you and your code and hold you at disadvantage against that competition you are so worried about. But if you think a break…
Honestly it sounds more like OP is stuck int the bad code trap because they work alone. Couple that with web dev and of course the world would seem bleak. Frontend code can be beautiful and maintainable but not having senior people to help you even know what that means sounds frustrating to me. my vote is to join a company as an intern/junior and grow.
I then spent 5 months at a company in a team where every bit of code went through a peer review process. Even I was responsible for reviewing others code. I learnt a hell of a lot, we barely had any bugs and if we found a bug, it was usually easy to fix. Since then, writing maintainable and (importantly) readable code is my standard and I try and help other Devs do the same.
"Escaping webdev" is the easy part --- you just need to quit. But doing so is only a transition away from something. We need to find what you should transition toward, instead.
What are your skills that you still feel at least somewhat passionate about? And how can we turn that into a future career?