My previous comment came out harsher than I intended -- I don't mean to imply that opinion and experience don't play a factor in other disciplines, we are more

My previous comment came out harsher than I intended -- I don't mean to imply that opinion and experience don't play a factor in other disciplines, we are more prone to see issues with software engineering because we are more familiar with software engineering. However I still think the situation is a bit worse. The tradeoffs in the models you mention are well understood. The equivalent in SE would be something like "should we use python or go", but it's very unclear that we can definitively state which use cases are better for which. There is simply no evidence, the plural of "anecdote" isn't "data".