I think that a lot has to do with the writers and readers of those articles having inherent biases that cause them to associate small and pretty with good solut

I think that a lot has to do with the writers and readers of those articles having inherent biases that cause them to associate small and pretty with good solutions. I happen to fall into that camp and much prefer nicely designed Saas products to legacy bloatware but I have been astonished to see time and time again that other people I work with are not of like mind. I once tried to convert my team to Asana because I love it for personal projects and I naturally expected them to compare it to our current methods and be blown away. I was surprised when it got nothing more than a "meh" reaction and within days it was forgotten. The team actually preferred SharePoint. This also by the way is a case in point of why it is important to talk to customers before building. Your assumptions about what is best are not necessarily accurate. Small software sells well to small businesses and in a lot of cases small teams, but company-wide (which I think is what we're talking about here) takes a whole different level of sales and influence.