Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases?

Anyone have career advice for this anonymous Slashdot reader?I've had a great career from 1992 to today. I've been a front line coder for most of that, but also a team lead, a supervisor, a project manager, a scrum master, etc.. My career has been marked by expediency — I did whatever needed doing at the time, in whatever tools necessary.
However, now I'm 52, and I'm getting tired of leadership and project management, and I would like to return to that front line again. The legacy skills I