I think I might just do that. My concern is largely about just how much of a double ended commodity it seems to be. It's very easy to find people and very easy to learn, so it's very easy to cast a massive net and compare everyone. I asked this question initially because I was just rejected from yet another apparently more general JS stack oriented agency type place that ended up testing me exclusively on React. I didn't struggle with it, but I certainly wouldn't have timed better than someone who had touched it more recently. I only had time available to me to get through 8/10 test cases, and I'm pretty sure they just saw that and considered me someone who can't write code.

What country are you in? And is front end development really your passion?

For me, I did web development for a few years earlier in my career and then moved on to native mobile and web services work.

I don’t have a particular interest in web and feel there’s myriad complex tooling and endless web frameworks, where React is the more recent hotness. How many different ways do we need to solve a problem, and why weren’t the older ways sufficient isn’t clear to me. The web dev space has almost infinite solutions to problems that don’t exist. But I digress.

I’d encourage you to look at mobile or working in services. There are also data engineering related roles where you can write code (Spark, ETL) and work with folks who build ML models.

My point is - if you want to code, there are many options to explore outside of web development.

I feel the same way, and I'm in Canada. I absolutely do not have 'passion' for anything related to development of any kind really, at least not anymore, and I think it's a silly word to use for typing code into a screen. I've done a little native mobile app learning, a little backend/sysadmin stuff in Python, and a little Go and C++ just for academic interest. My connection with various aspects of CS and programming is about particular interests, and no I don't and have never felt that about React in any way. Computers and programming lend us a lot of power if used in novel ways, and I think that's worth something, but I wouldn't describe it as passion. It can be isolating, it can be pointless and damaging to our bodies, it can be intensely boring and frustrating and not stimulating. That said, Vue is neat and interesting for some reason, but not so much so that I'm building arbitrary projects in it weekly.