Until that one consultant moves in, and convinces someone higher up that you need to move to microservices and containerize all the things, and next thing you know, you are all growing mustaches, wearing suspenders and horn-rimmed glasses, taking Lyft's to work, and clamoring for the company to sponsor your Chemex habits.
And then the consultants leave, and the experienced developers have to fix the crummy bug-ridden code they leave behind. :)
As an older developer, I think one advantage I do actually have is that I do know legacy technology. You don't want to become a developer that only knows that, but as long as I reasonably keep up with current technology and don't become a Grumpy Old Back In My Day type of old developer, that should add, not subtract. At my current job, there are actually some VB6 apps still in operation, so sometimes I am actually pulling up VB6 apps to fix or enhance to go along with the shiny new Angular 2 apps we're working on.
Yes I know that I don't have the energy to pursue the move-fast-break-things life of startup style companies, but not every company is like that.
