Also known as "career driven development". Controversial idea: I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. If an org is using sexy tooling that people want t

Also known as "career driven development". Controversial idea: I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. If an org is using sexy tooling that people want to use and looks good on a CV, then it keeps engineers happy and attracts new engineers who want to work with it. Disclaimers: provided it's not an actually terrible fit for whatever you're trying to do, or the overhead is enormous, etc.