It doesn't work. Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. But don't look back. Methods have to change. Focus has to change.
Values have to change.
The sum total of those changes is transformation. Technology is both an end in itself and a means to other ends. When you figure something out and make it work, there is pleasure and excitement. Not just because the technology is going to do something, but because you created something with its own inherent beauty, like art, like literature, like music. Denial can blind.