[xyzzy123]

I read your comment as "boring is hard if your existing platform is on fire" and I totally agree with that.

The advice is that you take the new tech and do a boring thing with it first, like deploy or build something non-critical and gain the production experience that way.

The least interesting thing to do would still be to stabilise $old while carefully getting $new ready.

[npunt]

Yep, in hardware this is picking a new material to work with, try it out in some smaller part that's easier to work and isn't critical, and then see its failure rate in the wild. Get used to using it before you bet on it.