Be careful. What choose boring technology really means is choose boring technology for anything not related to your competitive advantage. It is the engineering equivalent of MBA advice to differentiate between core and context, and choose boring technology for anything that fits in "context". Maybe your business's competitive advantage isn't related to your technology stack, in which case, all of your technology had better be boring. But sometimes, you really do need to run that brand-new shiny 5-GitHub-stars project in production. If you do, you just better make sure that you're one of the core maintainers, and that the time you sink into it more or less directly translates to business success.
You need someone in charge who can see when you REALLY need to break out the latest javascript library that was released last week vs "I'm bored and want to use something shiny at work".
I had a manager tell me that Blockchain was a better choice for our enterprise transactional data management. Since then, I've refrained from all technical discussion.
> manager who got the blockchain crap implemented got a nice job at a huge company out of it, so it wasn't a complete failure
Not for the manager's personal career, no. But probably a failure for both the original company needing to maintain unnecessary complexity and the new company hiring a manager who prefer resume/fad driven development.
