Choosing Boring Technology on Purpose

Choosing a familiar tool can feel unadventurous when there's something new I'd like to try. On a shared project, though, familiarity gives us time to spend on the parts that are actually difficult.

I want a clear reason for introducing something the team will have to learn and maintain. Curiosity is a good reason for an experiment. For a product dependency, I also want to know which current problem it solves.