In isolation of any constraint new things are always worth playing with and trying. I know I am certainly more biased (hopefully in a mostly good way) now than I was when I started in tech. Your thought strikes me as Very similar to when someone shares some hobby project they are working on and someone else doesn’t get it and states: “wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands”. So I do try to take new projects seriously while at the same time balancing time constraints. It’s hard :)