For me, moving out of the corporate world and into startup territory has removed most of the anxiety of feeling like an imposter.
When you can build and push major features of the product with little to no friction or stressful performance reviews, you can truly hone software as a craft.
95% of it is usually hammer and a nail, and the remaining 5% is a bottomless pit of version upgrades, new conventions, external libraries, changing requirements, performance bottlenecks, browser incompatibility, etc. No one should or can be an expert of these specific nuances, but you can learn to wrangle them all effectively at once.
When you can build and push major features of the product with little to no friction or stressful performance reviews, you can truly hone software as a craft.
95% of it is usually hammer and a nail, and the remaining 5% is a bottomless pit of version upgrades, new conventions, external libraries, changing requirements, performance bottlenecks, browser incompatibility, etc. No one should or can be an expert of these specific nuances, but you can learn to wrangle them all effectively at once.