That's fair enough: Programming is a considerably new craft. Linux kernel gets more and more advanced, people need experience to write code. Experienced are ol

That's fair enough: Programming is a considerably new craft. Linux kernel gets more and more advanced, people need experience to write code. Experienced are older. That's all there is to it. 20 years back you couldn't have 8.000 40-year old C/ASM developers working on an open source project. Now you can and they happen to write better code than younger developers, which makes sense, that's all there is to it imho.