Imagine it's 1930's and you get a car. It's Ford model T. It's the best car ever made and you are rightfully proud of it. But the time goes on and technology progresses. Your neighbours upgraded their rides for newer and better cars. Almost hundred years later they are driving semi-autonomous electric vehicles while you still crank-start yours because you refused to move on. After all, you got the best there was!
Now, imagine 18th century, you founded a country and wrote a constitution...