I haven’t worked as a software developer since net didn’t suck. But I pay attention and I watch all these requirements that strike me as “worship some trendy technology until it dies or is revealed as utter crap and end up jobless” does anyone hire problem solvers anymore in an environment dedicated to ensuring they’re stimulated to succeed ?

Yes, there are places that do. I have about 5 years of experience and recently took a position with a company that's stack includes Angular, graphQL and serverless architecture with AWS (lambda, dynamo, etc)...all of which I had zero experience with up until the first day of the job. I openly . said I didn't know any of those and they didn't care, because I could prove I was a good problem solver and talked through the technical interview in a focused, methodical way. I'd say focus on strengthening those problem solving abilities (duh), but also on being able to communicate them. You can usually determine what type of company you are talking to on the first interview. Requirements in a job ad often don't match what they actually NEED you to know to hire you...remember that. Ask questions to determine whether they are looking for a specialist or for someone to learn and and solve problems.

@dietketchup well would be helpful right now if our country would get past trying to reward messes up people and help the useful ones

So many goddamn places are turning away good people in need so they can station awful ones

I’m at a loss