Its amazing how we think the grass is greener. I have been doing systems programming for the past 7 years and have been thinking about moving over to JS based web development for the past few months.
Actually both of you are right.
You need a break from what you have been doing from a long time. Perhaps exchanging your jobs with one another might help. :)
Agreed. I think we humans just need change every now and then. Even when the problems and tools we use to solve those problems never change, we still somehow get upset with the tools or the problems.