Being what the OP advocates, i.e. good at seeing patterns and applying common sane practices etc, i.e. basically the good old being wise instead of knowing a lot (useless things usually) isn't that rare of a domain. And even if it were you could still be hired by any proper hiring process which looks beyond the 'how many frameworks do you know' and values your general skills, thereby recognising you could learn whatever framework you want if needed.
Not saying knowledge has no use, there are indeed expert skills which require somehwat more knowlegde than general programming, but if that 'book-knowledge' isn't combined with knowing how to properly apply it in a way your app has a sane architecture on all fronts you're still nowhere.
Thinking that you will get by because you are an expert in the fundamentals is just wishful thinking.
Is it really? Learning my first programming languages in depth took maybe years. But after I got the hang of it a new language, even when syntax is rather different, rather takes weeks now. Apart from me knowing fundamental stuff by now, what else would contribute to that?
I don't disagree with you about the fundamentals, but my experience does not match yours.
i.e: I'm good at the fundamentals and have more than 20 years of experience, but I was hopeless job wise until I found an employer that needed an experienced fireman to save his project on fire.
Now that I have all the modern tech buzzwords in my CV, I get job offers to work with the latest fads all the time.
Before I was looking to change jobs, I thought that I was going to get good positions because of my broad knowledge and experience. Reality proved me wrong.
Being what the OP advocates, i.e. good at seeing patterns and applying common sane practices etc, i.e. basically the good old being wise instead of knowing a lot (useless things usually) isn't that rare of a domain. And even if it were you could still be hired by any proper hiring process which looks beyond the 'how many frameworks do you know' and values your general skills, thereby recognising you could learn whatever framework you want if needed.
Not saying knowledge has no use, there are indeed expert skills which require somehwat more knowlegde than general programming, but if that 'book-knowledge' isn't combined with knowing how to properly apply it in a way your app has a sane architecture on all fronts you're still nowhere.
Thinking that you will get by because you are an expert in the fundamentals is just wishful thinking.
Is it really? Learning my first programming languages in depth took maybe years. But after I got the hang of it a new language, even when syntax is rather different, rather takes weeks now. Apart from me knowing fundamental stuff by now, what else would contribute to that?