to be fair there is a whole spectrum between "chasing every new shiny that gets a blog post" vs. "I haven't changed my stack since 1998."
there are certainly ways to get burned by adopting shiny new paradigms too quickly; one big example in web is the masonry layout that Pinterest made popular, which in practice is extremely complicated to the point where no browser has a full implementation of the CSS standard.
there are certainly ways to get burned by adopting shiny new paradigms too quickly; one big example in web is the masonry layout that Pinterest made popular, which in practice is extremely complicated to the point where no browser has a full implementation of the CSS standard.