This lack of feedback can be extrapolated to the entire government. It's a well defined problem: https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-com...
In tech, we have many examples: Agile, Ruby on Rails, React, RISC, OOP, microservices, and so on and so on. All have some real benefits, but also have or have had huge hype cycles.
You can make the same argument for most other industries (if not all of them). And then there are things like diets, religions, etc.
Nope. But businesses fail when they succumb to fads, while government just raises taxes.