You're not too old. The new frameworks just don't make much sense. You don't need any of them to write applications. They just bloat everything, create addition

You're not too old. The new frameworks just don't make much sense. You don't need any of them to write applications. They just bloat everything, create additional dependencies and don't help you much. You spend all your time figuring out how to do things limited by frameworks's scope rather than getting things done. You can generally write 90% of what you'll need from any framework in 90 lines of code and create nice abstractions yourself. Don't use frameworks and don't let the peer pressure get you sucked into this nightmare what frameworks are.