Design always has a purpose.
The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.
If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.
I think that it's a great time to be a designer.
I love that the level of mediocrity rises.
My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.