Why don’t we see new stars all the time

Question

So my understanding is that stars are born and die all the time with supernovae, black holes, etc. And we can see this in deep space all the time but why can’t we see that with the naked eye? Why are our constilations the same as when I was a child? If stars are born and die all the time in our universe Why don’t we have a new night sky every few decades? I know a stars life is long so not all stars will change in my life time but there’s no new ones born or no old ones that die close enough for us to see when we look up

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Well we can only see like 5000 of the stars in our galaxy with the naked eye out of like 100billion + stars. While about 7 stars get born in our galaxy each year the chances of it being close enough to be visible are pretty much nil.

Now supernova are pretty visible from far away but most stars don’t go nova. There have only been like 5 visible nova events in the past 1000 years. The rest just kindof peter out much more quietly.