[johnx5c]

Aside from the immaturity of the talent pool and tooling I mentioned in another comment, I think the embedded domain is incredibility slow to change.

My team have in the last decade spearheaded initiatives like adopting Agile, C++ (subset) use, Git (as opposed to SVN/proprietary) and extensive use of modern code hosting and CIs and we've met with a lot of resistance in our company (and those we work with). I've also interviewed lots of experienced embedded engineers, e.g. automotive, who have never heard of Agile or used Git.

I think it's a fear of change (risk) and also that the embedded engineering domain is so closely tied to hardware development, which is even slower to change.