When ours dies we’re going electric, ride on, zero turn. Our oldest son got one for his (also organic) lawn in Ohio and said it works great.
It does tend to be the young who lead with changes I think. Us “old dogs” take a bit to learn new tricks, but it’s easier once I’ve seen things in action. 
We were the first to get an electric chainsaw though (battery, not plug in) and it works well for what we need, so we did get one “first” in our family!