Comment by legitster

I just recently watched a lecture about this and was fascinated.

Specifically, the (incorrect) model of the universe that was used in Europe at the time had been refined to the point that it was absurdly accurate. Even had they adopted a heliocentric model, there would have been no direct benefit for for a long, long time. If anything, Galileo's work was rife with errors and mathematical problems that would have taken a lot of work to figure out.

So the argument was to take on a bunch of technical debt and switching costs for almost no benefits.