[Animats]

I finally learned that I can build entire products on my own and have a sense for a full development stack and how to e.g., inter-operate a crawler and an indexer and a frontend, and how to host the whole thing.

I've done that. Now all the technologies I'm using are obsolete. I have Python 2.7 code using FCGI and a MySQL database running on dedicated servers, pushed to the server with Dreamweaver.

Works fine. Needs very little attention. But it's totally obsolete. I need to learn a bunch of new technologies to do the same thing. And they're boring.

[task_queue]

Congratulations, you have a low maintenance system built on solid technology.

New isn't better, especially when it's rehashing the same problem that was solved decades ago.