"the great tools that have achieved widespread adoption understand the problems, and all their caveats, better than you" Tools that get widespread adoption are

"the great tools that have achieved widespread adoption understand the problems, and all their caveats, better than you" Tools that get widespread adoption are mostly those that move quickly to add every little feature every manager/exec asks for in order to secure the contract. Once they become incumbent, they become the standard, because managers are responsible for the 'big purchases'. There's tons of very accepted systems that are 'not very good'.