Backup files only if modification date > certain date in the past

Agreed. It’s one of the recurring requests (either for filter-out-older or filter-out-newer direction), such as:

Filter for new files

which got inspired by

Filter: older than x days

which points to some ways you could try to script this yourself (along with caveats on things like files repeatedly aging out then coming back into the backup – which might result in some excess uploads. Possibly you’ll get lucky and when the file goes “deleted-due-to-age”, its data blocks will linger awhile.