I had my childhood heroes who were working on one of the first major app in Elbonia who helped me learn programming.

I remember asking them some 10-15 years later to help me with a project and they were like "sure, we'll do it CakePHP". Initially I was like "you mean in Cobol?". But then I realized they were masters of that tech, it works, and there's no need to reinvent the wheel and learn some new trendy web framework that will be forgotten in a blink of an eye.