I think if you had chased every single latest hotness then you would have hit lots of breakages, but depending on what you are doing and where you are running (

I think if you had chased every single latest hotness then you would have hit lots of breakages, but depending on what you are doing and where you are running (and what dependencies you are using) then I think you could easily have something from 10-15 years ago work today. Part of the trick would have been to aware enough to pick the boring long-term options (but at some level that applies to every language and ecosystem), but the other part is understanding what the tools are actually doing and how they are maintained.