I'm 30 years into this industry also. We all have a tendency to defend and use what we're comfortable with, which often is what we learned ages ago. I try to ch

I'm 30 years into this industry also. We all have a tendency to defend and use what we're comfortable with, which often is what we learned ages ago. I try to challenge myself regularly by looking for my biases and assumptions. (Easier said than done, of course.) However, I'd say the rate of "tech churn" has become impossible to keep up with in the most popular stacks (Java[Spring], .NET, front-end, Node). If you are in other areas, things tend to move slower. I think the initiatives for standardization move at about the same rate as they used to, but the increasing amount of industry churn makes it seem like standardization has slowed down.