I'm always amazed when I hear about driving license procedure in different countries. It's funny that you can renew your driving license online.
In my country (Romania) driving licenses are issued for ten years and in order to get another one you have to do a medical checkup. If your health is not what it should be, you don't get your license renewed.
Last year I had some friends from Germany and the woman showed me her driving license issued when she was 18, which was many decades ago and still valid. A big piece of paper basically because back then there were no plastic cards as now.
Looks like it's different in each country.