Cool idea. But it only works when the data never changes.
could you make a streaming/incremental version? One that updates the math cheaply when new data arrives, instead of recomputing everything, or does the math fundamentally prevent it?
Its a clever academic demo in 1000 lines of C.
What everyone needs is intelligent circuit breaker + auto-remediation layer on top of existing schedulers (Airflow, Temporal).
The gap is real the opportunity is open.
in my 40s here as well, career shift is not a an odd thing anymore these days (i guess), myself (Elementary Teacher for 2 years with university degree > Civil engineer for 7 years with univ degree > software engineer without a degree 3 years indie sole projects > now considering career shift again but still not sure to what!)
I think its up to your goals (you go after what drives you ) if its moeny then go wherever money-industries go, if its passion then go be creative and let the passion drives you.
I think that's the real gap. Non-technical people don't want to learn DreamWeaver or SquareSpace's backend. They want to describe what they need and have it just work.