well smart oldies have learned to discern among skills that need focusing on and retaining and those that dont. perhaps with live we learn to navigate information better, given also constraints imposed by (with time) failing organs. so i guess the whole thing about a grownup is really that they be better strategists, and executives than children. everything else pretty much overlaps unreasonably often.

so newgrads burnout faster imho, is all im sayin.

Would it though? If you have 10 people on the team now doing the work of 20, 30, 50, ...

Once they get relocated to asylum, you need to replace them with fresh meat.