JS jobs are always an overpaid race to the bottom, but now they are looking for minimum 8 years of experience. I have way more experience than that, which causes recruiters to foam at the mouth, but I got tired of the unnecessary fashion and stupidity even though I was laid off. Fortunately somebody found me and offered me something different. I am making far less than I could as a lead fullstack engineer, but I am also not working with entitled children or Dunning-Kruger nonsense.