@McTag,
Actually Mac, to say somebody is "set in their ways" implies that the speaker is on the move, with it, which, one presumes, the speaker thinks is a good thing and thus a compliment to him or her self. It's a very enjoyable technique but Jesus recommended resisting temptations and thus I do this particular one. My eating jam roly-poly and runny custard is not a temptation which does me any harm but giving myself compliments I think definitely does. And the Pagan myth of Narcissus is pre-Jesus. By some distance.
They knew then that such behaviour was a dead loss for the horde so they invented a parable to help discourage it.
It's easy done though. It's like when somebody says "you don't understand evolution", which has been said to me numerous times. They are complimenting themselves that they do understand evolution because how else could they know I didn't? The fact that they know next to nothing about evolution is neither here nor there. It's the good feeling they get from the self-praise that is important. And Ignoring responses keeps it glowing.
If "You're too evolved" was said to me, by a lady particularly, I would take it as a compliment. Something similar has been said to me when I have got somebody in the pub tangled up in some specious sophistry made up on the spot but drawing from my wide experience. But they always do whatever it was that the sophistry was trying to persaude them not too. I tried to persaude a couple not to holiday in Egypt. She wished to see the pyramids and ride a camel like her sister had done. It's about a year ago. They went. My warnings were unjustified.
I would take "you're too set in your ways" as a compliment too. But "too evolved" is the opposite to a knuckle-dragger. The trouble is that knuckle-draggers are "set in their ways". So I've tangled myself up but I'll be able to wriggle free.