"staying with the herd" (i.e: use technologies that are in active use/high demand) helps recruiting and retention, as well as benefiting from the collective wor

"staying with the herd" (i.e: use technologies that are in active use/high demand) helps recruiting and retention, as well as benefiting from the collective work of the community around a technology. "The big rewrite" is usually a response to technical bankruptcy, which is when technical debt and interest is too high to be repaid.