Software comes and goes. Languages come and go. Development systems come and go. I was once godlike in certain computer languages, but at some point, the cost of pounding on a computer 20 hours a day becomes too high. Now I do data. There will always be data, and bigger data, and more of it. Generally, the only programming I do now is done within the database itself.
A heck of a lot of software exists for the single purpose of producing and processing data. Someone has to plan for it, analyze it, organize it, process it, and generally make sense of it. I don’t regret my career focus move.
Amen. I am in my mid-fifties in a tech job and I am the guy they call when they don’t understand the data. I evaluate it with pre-historic tools. And give them the answers they need. God bless the cavemen.