I'm dealing with related issues at work right. Leadership is beating us over the head with the "innovation" hammer, without any consideration why and where they

I'm dealing with related issues at work right. Leadership is beating us over the head with the "innovation" hammer, without any consideration why and where they want to innovate. This mandate is a recipe for disaster in the hands of inexperienced tech-leads. For example, there was an initiative to move from Talend to Azure Data Factory. Devs had to upskill, and it took them several months to deliver something that fails intermittently (with a huge cost behind it), and noone knows how to fix it. I rewrote the pipeline in 2 hours (as simple Windows Service that parses a file and writes data to a DB), and polished it in around a day or so. Added some informative and error notifications, and we immediately saw benefits. Innovation is fun, but some things just don't really need much of it. We've known how to do stuff like ETL for decades. We really don't need cloud-hosted solutions behind client secrets and gated services to load data into a DB. Ironically, my boring solution seemed more "innovative" because users can now get customised notifications in different Teams Channels. "Boring"/"exciting" tech isn't stifling or improving anything. These are orthoganal issues. Innovation can emerge from boring tech.