However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer method everyone will use it. A fiction indeed. This is how developers actually behave. If you

However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer method everyone will use it. A fiction indeed. This is how developers actually behave. If you build a better mousetrap, lots of developers will all too quickly give you n reasons why it's terrible, and why you won't be able to pry their (punch cards/assembler/compiler/favorite-language/favorite-tool) out of their cold, dead hands. This has been true, literally since the modern era of computer programming began in the middle of the last century, and it shows no signs of abating.