Ask HN: Pursuing career as Front-End Developer. Should I pivot?

I'm 37, and I've been brushing up on my front-end dev skills in order to get back into the industry after five years off to pursue my own business. My business pays my bills, but little else. I'm considering winding it down.

Before it, I satisfied small and mid-sized clients as a front-end contractor with my html/css/jquery/bootstrap along with design skills (I'm good with photoshop, sketch, illustrator and can make logos, presentations, and pdfs, etc.) I had no trouble getting consistent work. Unfortunately, most of my clients have moved on to bigger organizations, and I lost a back-end developer I frequently worked with to covid.

Now, half a year prior to our collective realization that AI really will change the industry along with massive layoffs, I started going deeper with javascript and am learning react, node, and tailwind. Also, a little figma and was considering webflow.

Unlike a lot of you, I'm not already in the industry, but trying to get in. The timing probably couldn't be worse. I know definitive answers aren't out there. But, would you recommend I maintain a steady course or is it likely going to be a waste of my time? If the latter, any suggestions?