I would have thought that in area like IT where everything gets reinvented every decade (or less) a master programmer wouldn't have to look at the details to assess a "new" technology.
I hate 'trying everything' because I never feel good at anything, and more often than not "new technologies" in this scene are just someone else's old ideas, rehashed and made more complicated. Mastery requires focus.
I'm no master, but I am middle aged. I like to learn at least one new technology a year; I always learn something from working hands on that I might not have understood just from ideating about it.
I would have thought that in area like IT where everything gets reinvented every decade (or less) a master programmer wouldn't have to look at the details to assess a "new" technology.