Yes, this is pretty much how it is. The best solution will be passed over time and time again if there is a better marketed alternative. To make things worse yo

Yes, this is pretty much how it is. The best solution will be passed over time and time again if there is a better marketed alternative. To make things worse you have management adopting product X because they know engineers want to work on it, and engineers adopting product X because they know there aren't any nasty-arse legacy maintenance projects using it. This is but one of the mechanisms that keeps our industry as the expensive, buggy, under performing mess it is. To articulate the problem: The tech industry is made of people, and people's actions are based on all sorts of not-all-that-logical incentives. Principally tribalism. We evolved this way and it's not going anywhere.