Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.
The cherry on top is the comparison of the impossibly of teaching advanced machine learning to someone of average IQ -- clearly indicating that they assume to be of higher IQ since they have grasped that topic.
OP seems to be a low performer thinking of himself as high performer held back by circumstances and not themselves
Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.
The cherry on top is the comparison of the impossibly of teaching advanced machine learning to someone of average IQ -- clearly indicating that they assume to be of higher IQ since they have grasped that topic.
OP seems to be a low performer thinking of himself as high performer held back by circumstances and not themselves