It's the competitive market environment which forces companies to release new stuff in order to stay relevant, coupled with the mental conditioning of most peop

It's the competitive market environment which forces companies to release new stuff in order to stay relevant, coupled with the mental conditioning of most people that newer is almost always better. That's why we see platforms and frameworks and clouds carrying a whole ecosystem around them, instead of sharply-focused tools which get a specific job done. A sharply-focused tool tackles a specific problem that exists at a certain time, in a certain domain. Once the tool solves the problem well, there is no reason to change it. Once the original problem is gone, the tool has no reason to exist.