Also, once a certain technology X is established within an industry, sticking to X can be understood as risk management . Since everyone does it, X can’t be all

Also, once a certain technology X is established within an industry, sticking to X can be understood as risk management . Since everyone does it, X can’t be all that wrong. And if X fails, all competing business are relying on it, too. Then, universities include X in their curricula… The result is a market where more grounded approaches to development are outcompeted by stacking abstractions on top of each other, leading to systems that are mediocre in the best case, and killing people in the worst.