This to me is a cliché that laments the fact around how certain aspects and communities in software is very popculcural. One thing good programmers do well is

This to me is a cliché that laments the fact around how certain aspects and communities in software is very popculcural. One thing good programmers do well is choosing abstractions that are tested and validated, not popular or hyped. The stack has not changed I decades. E.g It's still TCP, memory allocations and perhaps SQL. Whether you don't want to learn those is up to you. Learn them and you will know your way around for decades to come.