The world moves too quickly for the non-startup folks to have any hope of staying on the bleeding edge. Even if one does resolve to use the new hotness, by the

The world moves too quickly for the non-startup folks to have any hope of staying on the bleeding edge. Even if one does resolve to use the new hotness, by the time the project is completed, the world has moved on. Not even beginning to get into the realities of having to actually support the product for years, on a fractional budget, where major updates and the probable event of breaking changes in updated dependencies introduce unacceptable risk. You really want a set of steady, stable building blocks under those constraints.