> I'm in strong agreement. People pick the option that has a good story associated with it. Having a good story protects you in the event of a failure. And it protects your non-technical boss (or your boss' non-technical boss if your boss is technical).

The "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" defense. Which has since been updated to Oracle, Microsoft, Java, C# (for a large portion of the enterprise world), Python, and Javascript.

Best-in-class that isn't mainstream is a hard sell to employers if they are strongly risk averse (which many people, if not most, are).