Good point. What's often (and sometimes fairly) derided as "chasing the new shiny" has a lot of other benefits too: increased exposure to new (and at least sometimes demonstrably better) ways of doing things; ~inevitable refactoring along the way (otherwise much more likely neglected); use of generally faster, leaner, less dependency-bloated packages; and an increased real-world userbase for innovators. FWIW, my perspective is based on building and maintaining web-related software since 1998.