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> believe me, there's a reason the industry moves slowly.

No profit in security/dependency upgrades. Propriety SCADA protocols to enforce full stack manufacturer lock in.

That too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ then you end up with a bunch of civil engineers who build a monitoring and control platform in Power BI and expose everything to the open internet, which then gets exploited, and they wind up working on a Siemens product anyway (I don't work for Siemens, I do custom development). It's really frustrating to watch.

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