After 9 months of React frontend, I finally started backend. JS backend felt obvious at first. Everywhere online: “MERN is oversaturated” “Python is better” “Go is the future”… So I switched to Python backend. Big mistake. Not because Python is bad. I actually liked some of it. But as a backend beginner, changing ecosystems just confused me and slowed me down. I spent more time picking the “perfect” stack than building things. Switched back to JS backend. Felt natural again because of React. Lesson: constantly changing stacks hurts more than picking the “wrong” one when u have less time. Still want to learn Python someday. But for now, happy to finally start my backend journey. After grinding frontend for 9 months :)