I get that logically you would think that a very wealthy company would improve their technology once they had the resources to do that. But companies do not run by logic. They run by humans, making human decisions, motivated by almost every conceivable thing except logic.

> When you're a startup, expediency and funding prevent this, but by the time you're selling "solutions" and baking designs into ASICs you

.... are still run by the same startup people who think "working like a startup" was a good idea in the first place.

Right now I work with a bunch of people who came up working for startups. They are responsible for the products that make the company the most money. They are still on PHP 7.4.