I disagree that this is cargo culture. I'm not arguing for people to follow the latest hype, or do what everyone else does, in the hopes of winning. I'm saying

I disagree that this is cargo culture. I'm not arguing for people to follow the latest hype, or do what everyone else does, in the hopes of winning. I'm saying that if you have the choice between a handful of projects that solve more or less the same problem that you actually have, just going with the most popular one is probably going to be the best choice, because having all these other people in the same boat is valuable. I agree with limiting dependencies and points of failure, but that's orthogonal.