[hnfong]

> no rational person wants to abandon their advantage to follow the vogue trends of the younger generation. It's basically like resetting your experience points back to zero

This a real dilemma and why people generally get more inflexible as they age.

On the one hand experience is definitely valuable. On the other modern society tends to "improve" (even if a lot of trends are fads). The value of experience and the cost of not following modern, better trends tends to have a complicated relationship, and eventually as you enter old age, society has changed so much that the value of experience becomes less relevant and the cost of being disconnected with modern society is so great that it becomes a liability.

But still, at every point in time, your point that no rational person wants to reset their XP to zero still holds. So it's inevitable.

I sometimes try to fight that by trying extra hard in understanding the newer trends and trying to adopt to them, but it's an uphill battle.

"Set in their ways" is probably just a way to describe the inevitable result. It's rational all the way down, but nobody said a rational agent would live happily ever after...