I think you have to follow the money. When people have invested a lot of money into something, and loan payments are due every month, people tend to "make decis

I think you have to follow the money. When people have invested a lot of money into something, and loan payments are due every month, people tend to "make decisions" like "we are going with xyz framework" or "we've always used java so why migrate". Once this decision is made at the top, the middle managers and aspirational employees believe in the upper echelon's dogma because their jobs depend on it, and going against the organization might = getting fired. Conversely, when you look at self organized teams that are just making a hobby project, they tend to go with "we will do whatever we want to do given the reality of the tech landscape".