> If your solution is actually good, it will get adopted eventually...

I used to believe this when I first started in tech. The truth is even something as seemingly innocent as javascript runtimes now have an incredible amount of money behind them. And sometimes even marketing budgets. Deno released a high-production trailer for their 2.0 release last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swXWUfufu2w

I've also seen some really cool and well-thought out technologies simply not gain any traction.

The truth is you ultimately do need some big company behind you or major personality writing blog posts to ultimately make it.

Techies don't like to admit it but we're just as reliant on influencers as anyone else.