It's cobol.

If his happens I'll pop 3 bottles of champagne and have the best weekend ever.

Your gulp job sounds like the real issue. Use IntelliJ and that fixes a lot of the problems

Or Webpack.

Or stop running every dependency through Babel (which is the biggest source of build slowness I've seen in the wild).

You could freelance $400 in a few hours at most. Probably less. You have to consider opportunity cost, for which books are poor.

You also have to consider personal cost. Do you enjoy writing, and do you have a strong interest in a field worth writing about? Then great, this could be a productive use of time for you both personally and financially. There's nothing wrong with doing things that make your life worth living.

Yes, I do. I'm a home owner and I continuously vote to allow construction and development.

Increased supply is likely the cause of a lot of the demand (jobs + cheap housing nationally) so cutting supply only seems maliciously harmful and not directly in anyone's interest.

You move to SF despite land costs. You move other places because of it.