Thank you for a very accurate, non-car, analogy.
When I'm interviewing for certain roles there are many times when my feedback to the recruiters is, "this person will get bored on project X ... send their resume over to Billy Bob who's doing some more exciting almost 'new-science' stuff"
Bottom line is I'm not gonna ask (or pay) a CS to spend their entire day coding up basic web pages using a nearly 10yo tech stack ([cough] federal [cough]). Instead, go find me someone who just finished a coding bootcamp that wants to build their resume and while showing me how they can take the client's aging tech stack into the modern era.