That is an extremely simplified view of non-software.

Hardware standards shift because of an Apple PR camopaign. We stopped using zeppelins only after one disaster of several dozens made very public by live radio coverage. Non-Sufficiently standardized rockets explode because countries can't pick a measurement system. The auto industry in a country changes overnight because a dictator decides that the roadside to travel on shall be switched on a whim.

Just like software, infrastructure/hardware/whatever is an unfathomably complex web made from science, faith, half-knowledge, geopolitics, coincidences, rules, dick moves, physics and random tweets.

I don't think we are winning anything by trying to lift software onto some kind of pedestal of specialness in every regard...