I mean, everything you said sounds exactly like the definition of "new fangled" to me. I don't think the term is meant to be so pejorative or dismissive, just that the tech is currently intimidating to people not on the cutting edge. (Edit: e.g. taking graduate level database courses, as mentioned by a sibling comment :-)
There is constantly so much new stuff in software, you have to be a bit willfully ignorant of some things some of the time.
There is constantly so much new stuff in software, you have to be a bit willfully ignorant of some things some of the time.