> But even that doesn't explain why organizations refuse to switch from bailing-wire scripts to a pre-built, commonly-available infrastructure-component better

> But even that doesn't explain why organizations refuse to switch from bailing-wire scripts to a pre-built, commonly-available infrastructure-component better solution. In such cases, both staying and switching are ops costs. The costs of staying are known, because they’re the ones you’ve already been paying for a while. Switching to a new system is inherently risky as there’s always a significant chance you haven’t correctly identified all of the requirements from the existing system.