For me personally has been a good productivity tool. Mostly if I'm doing a side project, I can get up to speed with pretty much any language/framework and have it running in FAR less time than if I had to go through docs and set up my dev environment for said project.
There's really a lot to get from this "tool". Because in the end its a tool, and knowing how to use it is the most important aspect of it. It takes time, iteration, and practice to understand how to effectively use it
its incredible the sentiment on TfL API without realising your country even has an API for your public transport. Thats a huge leap in itself, let alone an actively maintained one
As most have mentioned, join a big company that is not a Tech Company.
Most of my 10 years has been working for startup size companies. It was fun at times, then it became stressing, too much work, too much time etc. Specially when I worked in a digital agency, working for clients tech products is horrible and stressing.
I finally changed job to a huge company B2B, non tech, but needs tech for their customers. They move SLOW, Steady, and with structure. They work for their own product.
I find that I work on tickets that, in my old job (startup) I would've had to do in a few hours, and here I can take a couple days and open a PR that has been battle tested, done with time, and no stress. Much much better quality.
I love my job now. And I feel I'm actually gaining such a valuable experience! I'm never going back to how I worked for 10 years
There's really a lot to get from this "tool". Because in the end its a tool, and knowing how to use it is the most important aspect of it. It takes time, iteration, and practice to understand how to effectively use it