Is it?

In my experience most changes are always closely related to what is considered best practice & most demanded, as of now.

At the same time, I have talked to people complaining about it & of the end of the conversation, it was most of the time the case, that they did not understand the change rather than actually not liking it.

For example, when talking about #Kubernetes with old-fashioned #Linux veterans, they always tell me "there's always something new and in 10 years there will be something even newer", while not understanding, that this is not a problem, but rather how things work.

If there will be the next best thing, that supersedes #Kubernetes in so many ways, I will gladly change to that new technology.

Same way I did with #Java.

I experienced how great #Kotlin is & that made me switch entirely to #Kotlin, even at work!

Others stayed with #Java, because "we have always done it like this", which a phrase, which I very much despise.

So, in my personal experience, when people complain, something new does not work as well or something, it's in 80% of cases an excuse for not desiring any change at all & rather have everything be the same way as the person grew up with.