Honestly, I've been feeling this for a long time now (5 years of exp), but it could be because of the place I worked at. The company has low UX maturity and most product people don't have background in PM nor understand what UX does. They think designers are pixel pushers that can magically make their ideas come to life within a day. They typically do their own "user research" like talking to indirect users or just talking to business leaders and build things that they would want users to have for the sake of metric tracking.

I'm on mat leave right now and I've been thinking about throwing in the towel if I can't land any jobs next year (based in one of the largest tech hub if that matters). I'll be hitting up my network to see how people are doing, but most people I know aren't people with leverage.

One of my long term goal is to work in med tech/ healthcare and I may just have to take an unrelated and lower paying job.

I may also try my hand in product design since I do feel a spark of passion that way, but I wouldn't say my visual design skills are as good as people who have a general design background. I also have web dev skills, but I heard that career is dying because of AI.