I'd say they're complementary perspectives. Latin is of course clearly older than (Modern) English, because it was spoken 2,000 years ago, whereas English is s

I'd say they're complementary perspectives. Latin is of course clearly older than (Modern) English, because it was spoken 2,000 years ago, whereas English is spoken today. But Mediaeval Latin was spoken at the same time as Old English; while Latin turned into Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian etc., Old English turned into Modern English. Arguably, these are just quirks of nomenclature. It's just an accident of history that Old English and Modern English are both called "English", because the difference between Old English and Modern English is just as great (if not greater) as the difference between Latin and Spanish. The verbal paradigm in Spanish for example retains far more similarities to Latin verb conjugation than is the case with Old and Modern English.