I’m saying that when you get to have games involving kids older than 10, that having teenage refs is more uncommon.

In my area, there are a number of leagues. Only one has a large number of teenagers in the ref pool and they only are center refs for the youngest players. For the more competitive leagues, you almost never have a ref crew made up of only teenagers. Here, young refs are generally protected by having older refs as part of the crew. There is a whole system behind referee scheduling that most people don’t know about.

(Also, this about soccer in the US, I have no idea how other sports schedule their officials)