As someone who would like to be working on new, interesting things in 2-3 years rather than bringing old code into conformance with breaking changes, this attit

As someone who would like to be working on new, interesting things in 2-3 years rather than bringing old code into conformance with breaking changes, this attitude captures a worrisome trend in development. On the one hand, it's great that we have platforms that innovate and improve and harden over time, but we're also facing a development culture where more and more time is spent servicing package/platform/language/OS changes that have no material impact on our own otherwise-mature projects. It's worth being judicious about where breaking changes are applied, right?