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If you work at a specific company then you could just focus on a narrow subset of tech that your company cares about, largely unaware of trends in any direction. I've seen a lot of people (probably the super-super majority) who have that relationship to work, although I personally don't like to talk tech to them for that very reason. For such people work is work and never fun, and that's why they never looked outside.

Anyways, tech doesn't have to be your hobby. You don't have to be aware of anything outside your company. You company could've bet on SPAs about a decade ago and you could still be on the set of solutions surrounding that, unaware that SSR even exists. That's the level of stress which you are contractually obligated to, and nothing more.