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As you get better at something you become more opinionated at what you need your tools to do. You demand more specific and tailored things from your tools and so you start to lean towards things that are more adjustable.

There is also the case that once your entire livelihood depends on something, consistency and muscle memory matter a lot. Lots of world-class athletes, drivers, and performers probably use tools that closely resemble the tools they learned and trained with their whole lives so they would probably seem kinda anachronistic to a newcomer.