Yeah, I agree most tooling decisions come down to inertia, org history, and who was in the room early on. What I’m trying to tease out is whether there’s something specific to hard/deep tech that makes this even stickier.

In my experience, the moment you’re dealing with hardware-defined timelines, shifting configs, shared facilities, or multi-org ops, Jira/Confluence fall over pretty fast and people end up juggling a pile of side spreadsheets and slides just to keep things aligned.