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Staying employed is one half of it, but the other half is periodically landing a new job. I think most software developers would agree that companies often have frustrating mismatches between what a candidate needs to get hired versus what an employee needs to be productive.

All this job-title/promotion/levels stuff is another kind of mismatch. So a future company you would enjoy working for could still have a hiring process which looks for the stuff you dislike.