This is why maintaining technology long term is so difficult. Although blindly jumping onto new things for the sake of their newness is dangerous, not keeping up to date is also dangerous. As technology advances, it collects more and more interfaces and patterns. It absorbs them from other fields, and it holds on to historic elements that no longer make sense. It builds assumptions around the most deeply buried characteristics. Keep your systems the way they are for too long, and you get caught trying to migrate decades of assumptions.
