The only thing we have is job skill management while working for others. Careers have become just that. And the shiny tech goes well on resumes, and the manager

The only thing we have is job skill management while working for others. Careers have become just that. And the shiny tech goes well on resumes, and the managers probably don't mind it if he's been allowed to put thousands of dollars of company resources to do it. Odds are that the management wants to sell it as being based on the cool new tech to help justify the project, aka we couldn't accomplish this with old tools, or we're staying up with the ecosystem. The point is that there are a lot of decisions that don't propagate down the chain.