Yeah, I heavily suspect the changes in "standard" stuff isn't due to there being revolutionary improvements every 4 years or so, it's just because the new stuff

Yeah, I heavily suspect the changes in "standard" stuff isn't due to there being revolutionary improvements every 4 years or so, it's just because the new stuff becomes trendy. When I research about programming languages I'm always amazed how almost every feature existed in the 70s as well, just no one bothered to use it.