I know what you mean, and most of the people I hire end up skewing older. For engineers, experience usually tames the &quot;ooh let&#x27;s try this shiny thing!&quot; because they have had experience trying to maintain that beta JS framework or been paged at 3am to deal with their hacked together nightmare.<p>It is absolutely more rare to find younger people who are already aligned with that mentality. That&#x27;s not good or bad, just a matter of fit.