alt Hacker NewsThere's a really noticeable difference in time frame covered in your examples (80s and 90s) and the one in the comment you're replying to (2010s and 2020s).
Is that just two people with different go-to examples? Or is there something going on here?
(I don't mean this as a leading question to some conclusion in my back pocket, I genuinely have no clue.)
Somewhere else in the comments here, someone else remarked "Individuals perhaps [move to the new models], but not organizations."
That's illustrative. The mechanism by which organizations are forced to update their technology, move to more competitive suppliers, and cut costs is a recession. In one, every business that doesn't do so goes bankrupt, and what's left are the more efficient businesses that have adopted technology effectively.
We haven't had a real recession since 2009. (2020 was an odd case, because it was effectively brought on by government edict and so it actually killed a number of efficient but unlucky sectors while doing nothing to clean out the dead wood in major corporations). The next one is likely to be a doozy, because the economy is filled with bullshit jobs, bullshit corporations, and bullshit products.