[codingdave]

I'm in complete agreement. I've been working steadily with older platforms for 20+ years. I pick up newer frameworks if needed, but as I rarely choose to work with startups, they are rarely needed. I have been working through some Deep Learning coursework... you are right that the math behind it all is not new, but the practical application of it all with readily available GPUs and libraries is starting to make it approachable to the average coder, so I feel it is time to become familiar with it. And a few such things have come along over the years... SPAs via AJAX, MVC/MVVC patterns, etc. But I don't consider a new pattern every few years to be exactly a fast pace to keep up with. And underneath it all, for us web developers, we still are working with the same basic HTTP request/response model, just doing fancier stuff with it at either end.