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Someone on Reddit coined the term 'institutional inertia', which probably applies here too.

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• mattlondon 4y ago
  That term predates Reddit. https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=Institutional%20inertia https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=Instit...
  • vertis 4y ago
    Was going to say the same thing. I don't think it was coined on Reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I like your use of trends though to prove it.
    • nickersonm 4y ago
      It's even older; there's a decent blip in the 1830s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=institutional+inertia&year_start=1800 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=institutional+...
• woadwarrior01 4y ago
  That term is apt for Reddit's engineering teams as well.