While young people succeeding against older and supposedly more experienced ones might seem strange, I think it makes perfect sense instead.

Many revolutions in history has been done by younger people, especially when the older ones were ruling with very conservative, static and possibly stupid attitudes.

The more a government is stagnant and fossilised, the more likely it is to be overthrown by something completely different. That's the strength of the youths: they don't beat the older ones with their same weapons, they change perspective and do something new, collapsing them.

Someone noticed that a new technology doesn't do better what the older one did, it did worst in some areas but better in others (like the CD that couldn't be home-burned but it offered a much higher quality and the ability to jump to tracks). The same could be said about governments and the like.