It's a pet peeve and a common problem in software development, where developers don't want to do the work that is asked of them because it's not challenging enough (yay another REST API in front of a database), so they add complexity themselves - new, more difficult languages like Rust or Scala (not as much of an issue anymore I think), excessively complex architectures like microservices, DIY infrastructure configuration like k8s, etc.

See also magpie developers. It's not that the new technologies are not great, it's just that in most cases it's not what a client needs, but what the developers want to do. They will have a solution and look for a problem to match.

I mean I'm not innocent of that, I'm looking left and right for problems where I could use Go to solve them with because I enjoy it. But I am aware of the risks.

Anyway the comparison is apt because it happens with developers; I've seen it happen firsthand at multiple projects, and in almost ALL of those, after the consultants left, the company moved back to their own technology, picked something off-the-shelf, or did yet another rebuild.

I think the comment was fair; Too often have I witnessed clueless and/or conniving salespeople recommend businesses to move onto Azure or other cloud services when there was very little to gain from it, yet it meant that the cost compared to hosting their very simple ERP software on metal would bankrupt them in the first bad month.