[brudgers]

I don't (keep up with tech/culture/sports) and never did.

When I was young, I had the illusion that I was or could.

You can miss out on opportunities. If it never was an opportunity, you didn't miss out.

Experts have forefront opportunities in their respective fields. Non-experts are on the back of the wave and don't. Or to put it another way, when you read the latest paper you are a year or more behind the people who wrote it.

What matters is what matters. And what matters is the things you make, not the tools you use. Good luck.

[nssnsjsjsjs]

I agree. Reminds of the explosion in JS frontend frameworks. Or databases. Or big data technologies. Or cloud primitives.

It's weird that has leaked into tooling. Through the other fads you could fad away with your 20 year old comfortable tools.