For me the ages are more like <5 is normal, 5-20 is exciting and new, 20-35 is suspicious but I might still try it begrudgingly, and 36+ is nah I’m too for this. I’m in the last group now :)
Although I also remember being 18 and meeting some 70+ year olds that were very adept at using computers/the web and that really impressed me.
I don't know, I'm forty and LLMs are exciting as hell. If we're talking web frameworks, Django was the last good thing and there can never be any more innovation in that sector.
In seriousness, though, a technology that lets me do things I couldn't do before is great. A technology that slightly reorganizes my code and makes it so I have to throw everything I have so far away, I'm less excited about.
What motivates me is building things, which unfortunately means that I'll always reach for the tools I know, and only learn new tools if my current ones don't work, which is why I've been unable to learn Rust.
With Django, I can get stuff done really quickly, and people don't care that it's not a SPA, they care that they can solve their problem with it.
Although I also remember being 18 and meeting some 70+ year olds that were very adept at using computers/the web and that really impressed me.