Honestly, I do sympathize with you. There have been many times during my career when I felt there were clear benefits to using a new/less widely used technology

Honestly, I do sympathize with you. There have been many times during my career when I felt there were clear benefits to using a new/less widely used technology. At one time that meant using C instead of COBOL. Unfortunately, my arguments have rarely survived the "what if you get hit by a bus" counter-argument. If you develop something using a whiz-bang technology, and then suddenly you are not there (you get a great job offer based on what you have created), who is going to support/maintain your creation while "they" find another wizard? The ancients solved the problem by laming their smiths.