Thats a good meditation. I think the winters were more driven by research dichotomy, for example Marvin Minsky's critique of the perceptron really slowed the research by 10 years. Advances made thus far have too much commercial relevance that companies invested dont look like they are gonna stop soon. But its a valid point. Looks like there is more upside being in subsets of computing like quantum computing, web3, metaverse etc than being a regular front-end engineer