You're right, it's difficult to get "left behind" when the tools and workflows are being constantly reinvented.

You'd be sage with your time just to keep a high-level view until workflows become stable and aren't advancing every few months.

The time to consider mastering a workflow is when a casual user of the "next release" wouldn't trivially supersede your capabilities.

Similarly we're still in the race to produce a "good enough" GenAI, so there isn't value in mastering anything right now unless you've already got a commercial need for it.

This all reminds me of a time when people were putting in serious effort to learn Palm Pilot's Graffiti handwriting recognition, only for the skill to be made redundant even before they were proficient at it.