Which of the two probably depends on the particular situation, as it often is in technology. Supposedly there was a time period where the Android team was cons

Which of the two probably depends on the particular situation, as it often is in technology. Supposedly there was a time period where the Android team was considering .NET/C# instead of Java. In the short term their choice of Java was best for them but in the long run it led to things like the Oracle lawsuit and its threat of changing copyright law forever in a bad way - so it's interesting to consider what an alternate timeline would look like. IE6 was amazing at the time compared to its competitors, but then it quickly became a hindrance - a good example of how the situation can flip the moment the ecosystem changes.