As someone who has been in the business for more than 5 years but not nearly long enough to be one of the "veterans", I find myself often between the two camps.

As someone who has been in the business for more than 5 years but not nearly long enough to be one of the "veterans", I find myself often between the two camps. On the one hand the hype cycle is annoying. First, Node and NoSQL were supposed to solve all problems, now it's GraphQL, or Go, or whatever. All the while perfectly reasonable tech like SQL or REST are almost not considered anymore even in cases where they are more suitable. OTOH, some of the "older" people are the same when it comes to newer technologies. Things can't be the same forever, and not every change is a temporary fad (the internet wasn't, nor were mobile phones), and the same people that now refuse to look at things like e.g. Kotlin or Scala should realise that Java was new at some point too and plenty of languages that came before have now all but died out. In short, people should come up with actual arguments for/against some tech instead of going purely by novelty (whether as a positive or a negative aspect).