I think the ideal is a "tick tock" strategy where you're either allowed to innovate on tooling or innovate on product but never both at the same time. Reserve i

I think the ideal is a "tick tock" strategy where you're either allowed to innovate on tooling or innovate on product but never both at the same time. Reserve interesting tooling experiments for small, well defined, non user facing systems so that your team becomes familiar with the pros/cons, then apply it to large scale core functionality once you've gained the experience.