The real interesting thing to me is the language around "paved road"s, and management support for tools teams to maintain those paved roads. It's easy to say,

The real interesting thing to me is the language around "paved road"s, and management support for tools teams to maintain those paved roads. It's easy to say, "Engineers should use the tools they deem appropriate" and make the engineers happy. What's harder is to support those individual efforts with attention and money to build a common consensus and a shared toolchain. "Paved roads" is nice language to describe the utility of consensus without condemning those who depart from it. I dig it.