Thing is, this used to be trivial to me, but I spent several years in a purely frontend role, so didn't interact directly with databases at all.

Moreover, the market promotes specialization. The other day I had a conversation with a friend who is rather a generalist and we contrasted his career opportunities with those of a person I know who started out as a civil engineer, but went into IT and over the course of about four years specialized so heavily in Angular, and only that, that now makes more than the two of us combined.

He can't write an SQL statement - I'm not sure he was ever introduced to the concept. How does that feel?