> Do the architects have intense debates over steel H beams vs wooden LVL beams, and at some point newbie architects believe you should only switch from one to the other as an architecture firm if your architects have experience with it, because the only way to know if it would work is reading the marketing claims.

That is one way to put it, which is convenient for the point you're making. A different way, more convenient for the point I'm making is that if you're budding roads and you need a bridge, you probably wouldn't hire a firm that only has experience building tunnels.

So you see, your analogy is meaningless, because making an analogy is not a convincing way of making a point. Anyone can make an analogy.

My argument on the other hand that experience is a very important factor, is a lot more convincing because anyone who has any kind of professional career already agreed with it.