> lol. This is definitely not my experience.

Which part doesn't vibe with you? Are the seniors not stuck in their way of doing things? Or they are stuck in their way of doing things, but never admit defeat?

> So the exotic tech is introduced to solve a symptom to the underlying issue without the crucial step of reconsidering the box the system sits in.

What does this even mean?

> Being old or having worked at the same company for 10 years doesn't automatically mean someone is truly skilled and could actually mean their experience is extremely limited.

Right. And it's really hard to have a discussion with them, because they'll bring the discussion back to seniority, or popularity, or boringness of the technology, or say that the scale issue probably won't happen, or the race condition probably won't happen.