Yeah, I found this strange as well, if the tech is so amazing why do developers need to be forced to use it?
I'm encouraging my folks to try it pretty hard because A) I've personally seen the productivity gains and B) using it is at first deeply weird/uncomfortable. Sometimes you've got to convince people to push through that kind of thing.
Maybe there's a positive externality: your individual learning percolates to others and benefits the firm as a whole.