While some newer languages are interesting, the dev stacks today are a mess.
Also, While we have safe pointers and GC everywhere, the lack of technical discipline/professionalism in the industry is worse than ever. I recognize that the C-suite and VCs share in the blame for this, but devs are the ones building things and evangelizing the newest-hotness that comes onto the scene.
But I do have to remind myself that compared to traditional engineering tracks, software engineering is still in its infancy.
/get-off-my-lawn
What concerns me quite a bit is the overt opposition we're now seeing to professionalism in the industry. The whole 'post-meritocracy' shtick, regardless of the best intention of the "useful innocents" who came up with that particular phrasing, is really a way of saying: "Professionalism? What professionalism? There's no such thing, we know better than that! Brogrammers r00lz FTW!" Again, this is clearly not what the proponents were seeking-- but in some sense, it's what the phrase actually means, out there in the real world.
And of course, the Web became widespread around that time, as well. Whatever you might think about "hyper-scale advertisement services, global human tracking, and digital Skinner boxes", Amazon first became prominent in the dotcom era, and it's quite massive today.