You'd be surprised. OLD is way worse than it was even a couple of years ago.
Meh... I have been hearing that every time I went back to it and Everytime I got the same results which were mostly good.
The ability to adapt and adjust to changing conditions is vastly underrated as part of continuing to get results, really at anything in life.
No different than my job as a software engineer...constantly need to adapt to changing conditions, learn new things and be willing to change what I'm doing when it's necessary.
Nothing is static in life...constantly be willing to evolve or get left behind.
The people having issues are unwilling or unable to to evolve with the times.
You know who else had trouble evolving with changing conditions? Dinosaurs. How'd that turn out for them?
People can decide to evolve or slowly go extinct. And yes, that is a decision.