The article answers this, and the answer is "no". New technology is one you don't know the details of.
> determine candidate solutions, and choose them based on their fit
That's quite hard to do for solutions that you don't know the details.
You have an objection to something. It's clearly not to the article's point, though.
That's a great thing to discuss when deciding on the technology. Maybe you should aim for solutions that you know well, or a solution that makes migrating away easy, or maybe you need to do some discovery work, etc.
> You have an objection to something. It's clearly not to the article's point, though.
It's an objection to the nature of the article itself - that technical decisions should work this way, that metaphors like "innovation tokens" are useful, that "boring" is a good proxy word.