To echo what others have said, I suspect what you're responding to isn't just change but churn. The social and economic incentives in place all seem to privileg

To echo what others have said, I suspect what you're responding to isn't just change but churn. The social and economic incentives in place all seem to privilege revolutionary technological innovations over incremental ones, which results in a lot of shooting-for-the-moon...much of which ends up being unproductive, or counterproductive given the transition costs involved.