" Go with the flow "

Flow for what ? Any context??

I have a good story for this. Early on i didn't want the "flow". I steered my own vehicle, working at start-up for less pay, trying out changing tech stacks, domains, roles. After 5 years of coding, devops, sre, product management, I've got crazy skills, but guess what, i don't know where to go. Since my pay was always low, recruiters take advantage. They're behind my "relevant experience". It's very difficult to explain them how tech works and the fact that most things in it are subset and superset of each other. So, overall, I've got a variety of skills, nothing specialised and a low salary. My peers who just went with whatever they got, the "flow", stuck to the techstack they got, specialised, switched and getting 25-40 ranges salary.

Depends. If the need is to go with the flow then do it. If it asks to go against it ... Put your as$ on the line. Never faulter.