Businesses don't stand still, you're either actively working on a product, or you're building a new product and the old product is in maintenance mode. So to fo

Businesses don't stand still, you're either actively working on a product, or you're building a new product and the old product is in maintenance mode. So to follow your analogy, a businesses is always trying to get itself into a new car. If electric cars are the future, they don't want to be in a gas powered Honda Accord while their competition is riding around in Teslas. In larger companies, spending less on gas can also save you a lot of money. If I can write a Go app that doesn't require as much AWS compute, or have a type system that lets me spend less time on bugs and more time on features, that's hitting my bottom line.