Anything cool or anything you are excited about in the WordPress world or even more generally in web development?
To me it feels like there is not much innovation lately, and generally not much innovation on the web - every website looks the same and I’m no longer seeing cool projects, new frameworks, new languages etc (as I used to when I was younger). Or I’m just getting older and more out of touch.
I don’t want to overhype this, but I see WPBay as the coolest innovation in the WP world lately. 
Besides of this, the Brand-new WordPress AI Team might bring some interesting stuff in the future, as it seems that WordPress is also starting to integrate the AI “buzzword” into their platform.
The team includes members from Automattic, Google and 10up (an enterprise WordPress agency, behind a lot of core contributions). Their official goal is to explore and define how AI can enhance WordPress.
This might mean the end of AI plugin developers (myself included), as they want to add an AI Gutenberg block for generating or summarizing content, with fallbacks for manual editing, native support for AI prompts in templates + AI images.
Lets see if it will be a hop or a flop…