[jelling]

Yes. The people involved in tech changed to a non-trivial degree over the last 15 years.

I grew up in a family that made software and I’ve been a professional myself for over twenty years.

The post-2008 cheap money era brought a huge influx of people that, at best, were not technology enthusiasts or tinkerers. A similar thing happened in the dot com era but a lot of those people got pushed out by the crash. We’ll see what happens this time.