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But if your org is using $oldtech and some new person comes in recommending $newtech, you'll be in great company if you argue that $newtech sucks and you wish you could just keep using $oldtech.

Organizational inertia is definitely a thing, and technology trends do not move as quickly in all sectors.

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But how good is $newtech really? Is it someone trying to screw over other older employees in the name of his job security? Is Mr. $newtech in touch with the salespeople hawking this product? Is he being incentivized to advocate for it? How many secondary changes will $newtech result in, and will they deliver so much more value as to justify the expense, inconvenience, retraining, and tears that will come from replacing $oldtech?

My guess is, in most circumstances, probably not

"New tech" lately feels more and more like whatever the next breed of inexperienced geeks decided to reinvent

Well, to move back from the abstraction, Visual Source Safe is truly awful, and you're never safe from it losing your code :)

Whatever your perspective on fad-chasing in software development, some things just suck down through the ages...

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