I used to be full stack before the re-invention of wheel phenomenon got way out of hand in the js world. Keeping up with what’s going on with the ecosystem and employing the best practices became a huge chore that took time away from solving actual business problems.

Turning away from front end let me concentrate time on learning devops, cloud, ml and other things that aren’t as volatile in terms of design patterns and that lets me design more high level solutions to problems and create more overall value.

Maybe people just differ in how wide or deep information they could handle but I certainly can’t keep up with such a wide array of patterns and tools that do the same thing.