I've found it just pushes the complexity elsewhere or opens up (or silences) performance or security problems you wouldn't have had if you'd stuck to the old fa

I've found it just pushes the complexity elsewhere or opens up (or silences) performance or security problems you wouldn't have had if you'd stuck to the old fashion way of doing things. Keep checklists and script what you can. I find it helpful to follow edge whenever I can so if I hit a snag the developers that made the change still have that change fresh in their mind. It really doesn't take that much time to keep things updated if you don't go hog-wild on different libraries and if your stuff is reasonably well tested. As an aside, I've been thinking that there should be a stack that is designed and built for the sole purpose of staying stable over decades. Something with a bunch of stripped down technology. As robust and stable as possible. Only allow security updates. Only allow certain character sets. Something built on a language that is just stupid simple and secure. A Swift or Rust subset maybe? Lua? Lisp without the macro insanity? If the future needs some sort of tech that we didn't anticipate (say, something to handle quantum computers breaking cryptography) then the stack should be setup in such a way to decouple the varying layers with minimal work. I liken it to building codes. We should have pre-setup combinations of technologies that are stable, simple, and combinable. Sure, go outside them for skyscrapers, but for the day-to-day buildings things are getting too complicated.