I used to hate this trope because I was 100% certain I would never ever want children (and I still do hate it to some extent depending on how it's handled), but the older I've gotten the more tolerable it gets especially as I'm now experiencing it myself.
It's a very relatable trope for a lot of people, and I suspect especially so for older people. Even if they don't ever deal with that whole biological clock thing, plenty of people have some sort of equivalent midlife crisis when they realize that they've changed over time and spent decades building one life when ultimately they wound up wanting another. It's really easy to say that you never want kids or you want to focus on your career when you're a teenager or twenty-something, but dealing with regret about it decades later is hard and often painful. Having kids and not having kids are both decisions that can't be undone after a certain point.
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It's a very relatable trope for a lot of people, and I suspect especially so for older people. Even if they don't ever deal with that whole biological clock thing, plenty of people have some sort of equivalent midlife crisis when they realize that they've changed over time and spent decades building one life when ultimately they wound up wanting another. It's really easy to say that you never want kids or you want to focus on your career when you're a teenager or twenty-something, but dealing with regret about it decades later is hard and often painful. Having kids and not having kids are both decisions that can't be undone after a certain point.