I'd say it's an entirely human failing to eschew "old" knowledge in favor of all that is shiny and new. This is in no way limited to the programming field. For example this kind of behavior frequently leads to comical nonsense in the machine shop at the local hacker garage (we have a local TechShop).
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen folks gravitate to the shiniest, most miserably complex high tech tools in the shop simply because they're 1. shiny, 2. high tech, 3. complex. There was a guy in last week who's working on a project he plans on patenting. I watched as he spent over an hour setting up a complex system of jigs and programming one of the CNC milling machines in the shop. Seconds after he set the thing in motion the bit managed to snag his work piece (a small bolt), snatch it out of the jig which it then promptly used to murder his jigging system. I could offer a laundry list of minor mistakes this dude made, (no cutting fluid, incorrect jig material/setup, CNC programming error) but the one big mistake is the most interesting in my mind: he picked the wrong tool for the job. A dead simple drill press and a machinist's vice would have not only been entirely sufficient to the task at hand, going "low tech" would have had him productively drilling parts in less than five minutes.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen folks gravitate to the shiniest, most miserably complex high tech tools in the shop simply because they're 1. shiny, 2. high tech, 3. complex. There was a guy in last week who's working on a project he plans on patenting. I watched as he spent over an hour setting up a complex system of jigs and programming one of the CNC milling machines in the shop. Seconds after he set the thing in motion the bit managed to snag his work piece (a small bolt), snatch it out of the jig which it then promptly used to murder his jigging system. I could offer a laundry list of minor mistakes this dude made, (no cutting fluid, incorrect jig material/setup, CNC programming error) but the one big mistake is the most interesting in my mind: he picked the wrong tool for the job. A dead simple drill press and a machinist's vice would have not only been entirely sufficient to the task at hand, going "low tech" would have had him productively drilling parts in less than five minutes.