Ask HN: Do you ever feel like you've “outgrown” HN?

I've been visiting HN regularly for probably 10+ years now. Almost daily. It's still my main source of technology information today. But looking at the upvoted stories and comments, something in me has changed.

When I started using HN many years ago, I was very much into the "startup" thing. A story about YC? Cool! Lean Startups? Cool! Some YC company has raised money? Cool! Ruby on Rails? Cool! To be honest, I really wanted to be one of the cool kids - I wanted to be part of this. I kind of managed to do that too. I moved to the bay area, started a company myself and got into YC. Company failed later, unfortunately.

HN hasn't changed much. Instead of Ruby on Rails, it's Rust now. Or Machine Learning. Still plenty of startup stories. But looking at the comments and upvotes, I sometimes can't help but wonder how much of it is an echo chamber of young kids wanting to be like their idols and blindly upvoting anything related to what's hip - not dissimilar to me 10 years ago. Is that really healthy?

Yes, there are still truly intelligent and insightful conversations going on here. But a lot of it is drowned out by stories and comments blindly upvoted due to confirmation bias. An example of this are ML stories with 100+ points but close to 0 comments. Probably none of the upvoters actually reads or understands those and just upvotes because it has ML in the name and that's hip! Same for Rust. I sometimes take a look at those posts and quickly see they are just fluff. Why are they even on the front page? Of course, it could also be bots.

I feel like I've outgrown HN to the point where 99% of what's on the front-page is no longer interesting to me because I've now seen several technology cycles, and the same stuff keeps repeating over and over. I now come here only for the occasionally very insightful comments or stories from other users.

Does anyone else feel similar? Where do you go instead?