Comment Re:Advanced is good enough (Score 1) 220
I don't have enough years behind me to compare to you, however i started a little late so just maybe it's possible to have a little wisdom...
It looks like you've moved from a stable slow paced background into a fast paced unstable area, even though it's true you should keep your skills sharp, web development is just a fast moving area and the latest hotest libraries come and go... even the ones that appear to be well adopted and around for a long time, for instance the best thing that came out of jQuery was it's query selector engine sizzle, now that CSS selectors have been added to the JavaScript DOM interface for quite a while now i often just don't bother with it as i'm not interested in the rest of the fluff in jQuery. Angular, same thing, directives, eventually that will be native look at Google's polymer etc.
I didn't know jQuery or Angular in depth when i started my job and i wouldn't say i knew them in depth now, sure i use them ALOT but i've just picked up the most basic and relevant parts to my every day job. What i have learned in depth and think will be useful when those libraries are extinct is language, concepts and techniques. There are also a dozen other libraries we've used that aren't worth a mention, they tend to leave a lot to be desired but perhaps they aren't works of art from a programmers perspective because even their author know they won't be relevant for long.
Libraries for web development come and go, some of them are better than others but then often the concepts they are based upon are just absorbed into the underlying technology. My advice is not to get hung up on the latest library, just get into the technology and understand the concepts, then picking up new libraries isn't that hard... because the landscape will change again.
I think probably for all the reasons above, the part i like the most about my work is just working with the plain languages available to me, once i've done my work there and happy with my code in it's uncontaminated agnostic little bubble i do the last part where i disgustingly sellotape everything together with ill fitting tools. I guess my code is as invested in those libraries as i am...