I don't mean to marginalize your frustration, but I feel like you may have unrealistic expectations.
First, you have a tech industry salary, which is probably at least twice as much as the median wage, if not more. Not only is it white-collar work with practically no risk to your physical safety (assuming you exercise, eat right, etc), but monetarily this puts you _way_ ahead of most people right out of the gate.
If you literally can't find a home to buy (assuming you want to buy one), then either you live in an HCOL area (in which case, owning property was _always_ a fantasy even among the highly-paid), or you aren't looking hard enough.
As a landlord, I can assure you that landlords have never gotten 2% mortgages on their properties, unless landlord==bank or some ridiculously well-connected billionaire.
Except for 2008, the housing market has _always_ been at a peak. Prices may flatline if we head into a (worse) recession but they are not going down to where they were again. You only options are to accept that and adjust your budget/income/location appropriately, or opt to rent forever, which is not at all a bad thing since owning a primary residence is never an investment. (Although there is room for nuance here that I won't get into.)
In the US, the vast majority of people _never_ pay off their mortgage until late in life, if all at. This is because the "normal" thing to do is to buy a house and "upgrade" two or three times until retirement. When interest rates were low, it didn't even make financial sense to pay off a mortgage because the money could be put to better use buying investments.
Even with my high-paying jobs, I didn't manage to get above $0 in net worth until I was about 40. I think that's pretty good in a society where an increasing number of people have to work their whole lives for a number of factors, not all of which have to do with wall street and a broken government.
I don't know your age, but it sounds like you're still closer to the beginning of your career. Either way, life has "started" for you already, it's happening right now, and it will be even better if you make a concerted effort to understand the world and your place in it right now, and figure out which decisions you need to make that will benefit you the most in the future.
Since you asked for it, my advise is to live well under your means, save aggressively, set goals, and never stop learning. If you want to challenge yourself, look into a concept called "early retirement." Good luck.