My experience is that for every developer who adopts a new technology for its true merits, there are at least two others who use it only because it is at the to

My experience is that for every developer who adopts a new technology for its true merits, there are at least two others who use it only because it is at the top of Hacker News/Ruby Weekly/other trendy publication, and those developers take advantage of very few of the technology's benefits.