Yeah, have experienced this also, and I think there are competing interests between "best engineering option to get the product out fastest/most efficiently" an

Yeah, have experienced this also, and I think there are competing interests between "best engineering option to get the product out fastest/most efficiently" and things like "hiring" and "getting investment funding" Using the latest and greatest buzzwords helps greatly with hiring and getting investment (it's a positive feedback loop that just feeds itself and increasingly adds pressure to make those decisions).