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Don't worry man.  By then you'll have electric, techno-fingers that'll do the job. You'll be sitting on your hover-chairs around the roaring atomic heater, satisfyingly full from your beef and 2 veg pill, and they'll be marvelling that your guitar is made from real wood, from back when there were still trees.

Sure it's possible to grow or at least widen one's horizons. Take a look at some of the people who have had long careers and see how they kept things vital and stopped themselves from recycling the same old same old by having their ears and minds open so they could keep on bringing fresh elements into what they do. David Bowie's a good example. There are, as previously noted, constraints that each of us run into because we hit the ceiling of whatever talent we have, but the constraints that you can beat are those to do with what you expose your ears and minds to and what you allow to enter into your own personal melting pot.

Another thing to try is to not just confine your listening and experimenting to the guitar. Richard Thompson says that most of his musical ideas, certainly for soloing, come from instruments other than the guitar these days. I got to see him in Cumbria last year, and I recall one solo that he took that was fab but almost not a "guitar solo" because so much of it was bagpipe licks. He set up a drone part (no loop station!) and then layered all these piope licks over the top of that. The only thing that made it a "guitar solo" was that he played it on guitar.

A music teacher used to shout at us in a wild, animated way:

   "When you think you're good - you're not !!"

i.e. As soon as you think you've made it, you've just close your mind to learning
IMHO ... if you're doing it right, then the more you learn the further the target gets away from you.

Nothing wrong with that IMHO. Sometimes you've just got to give it a rest. Go into the game reserve and watch birds for a while - that's me. 

One of life's more pleasant activities. You don't even have to go to a game reserve. The bigger municipal parks in Johannesburg, like Delta Park, Emmarentia Dam, Greymont Park can offer a surprising amount of bird life. In Jo'burg you only have to go down to Klipriviersberg (right next door to Mondeor) to get a very good bird watching experience.