Newfangled means annoyingly new and needlessly modern. The gadget you did not ask for, replacing the thing that worked.
The word is never neutral and it is nearly always in somebody's mouth: newfangled is what an older speaker calls a new invention they resent, and a writer uses it to show us that speaker rather than to give an opinion. All these newfangled machines. It carries a comic charge now, because complaining about the newfangled is itself an old joke. The word is genuinely ancient — fangled once meant fashioned or contrived — which makes it a very old word for being suspicious of new ones.
1adjectivenewfangledNew in a way the speaker finds unnecessary or irritating.
“He refused to use the newfangled coffee machine.”
Newfangled keeps a lost verb alive. Fangle meant to fashion or to make, and it survives in modern English in this one grumbling word.
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From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA