The Future of Linguistic Theory?

I think on that one of the best things that I've ever been taught was from Jeff Hines, who's at Stony Brook now. He was teaching us in grad school that theories and frameworks are tools. So you use them as a tool. They are not sacred. And so then you're not faithful to a theory just because you're faithful to it. Do you think that once maybe more of the older generation is maybe retiring and the new ones are in the tenured presser ships? That would be a more common thing or do you think that there are young people today that really keep this conflict alive?