Even if you had those choices chances are you would be losing interest, most lose interest in the new as they age, they become more pragmatic about it all. Optimal is rarely optimal outside of a few niche areas and often the difference between optimal and good enough is not much, especially when you consider the time spent to achieve that optimum. Things we learn with age. How many new and exciting things have you dedicated a good amount of time learning about just for them to fizzle out and be forgotten? So we get old and let the kids sift through the new for us.