Every new tool you adopt is a promise to learn its failure modes at 2am. That’s fine when the tool earns it - and expensive when it doesn’t.
Spend novelty where it counts
Pick a small number of places to be innovative - the things that make your product yours - and be deliberately boring everywhere else. Boring tools have documentation, answered questions, and known edges.
Choose boring technology, then spend your creativity on the problem only you can solve.
Boring scales with the team
When a new teammate already knows the stack, onboarding is days, not months. Familiarity is a feature - it compounds quietly every time someone joins.
Boring isn’t a lack of ambition. It’s ambition aimed at the right target.