A couple years back a client asked me to review a tech stack and to help them build it. One tool stood out as an odd choice and I suspected the engineering team

A couple years back a client asked me to review a tech stack and to help them build it. One tool stood out as an odd choice and I suspected the engineering team was resume padding. I looked at their scaling needs, costs, experience, existing stacks, and user stories but I couldn't work out why they included it. I pitched an alternate that delayed introducing the tool (it would be clear later on if it was needed, and it looked easy to delay). I got an enthusiastic but substanceless rebuttal from the engineering team. I ended up including the tool, as I needed the engineering team on-board to make design changes. In retrospect I still think they made a poor choice. I guess it worked out though as my resume was similarly padded?