I think that's a very extreme take in the software industry. Sure you don't need to pick up every new trend, but a ridiculous amount has changed in the past 10 years. If you only consider stuff from 2016, you're missing some incredible advancements.

You'd be missing stuff like: - Containers - Major advancement in mainstream programming languages - IaC

There's countless more things that enable shipping of software of a completely different nature than was available back then.

Maybe these things don't apply to what you work on, but the software industry has completely changed over time and has enabled developers to build software on a different scale than ever previously possible.

I agree there's too much snake-oil and hype being sold, but that's a crazy take.