Comment by yawaramin

> The thing is most of us have jobs where we can't unilaterally switch to the 'cooler' solution, and I value my own context-switching overhead much more than I value a slightly smaller bundle or dep tree.

And this is how your company ultimately loses in the market. For every bloated incumbent you will get a snappy new competitor. Keep saying 'it's not worth it to try new stuff', right until you finally realize you never learned anything new and now your company made you redundant.