You say that as it's some bad thing, but it's just other words for "use boring tech". Yes, there could be reasons to choose a lesser-known product, but they be

You say that as it's some bad thing, but it's just other words for "use boring tech". Yes, there could be reasons to choose a lesser-known product, but they better be really good reasons. Because there are multiple general reasons in the other direction, and incidents like this are actually one of those reasons: they could happen with any product, but now you have a bigger community sharing heads-ups and workarounds, and vendor's incident response might also be better when the whole world is on fire, not only a couple of companies.