[KronisLV]

> Also everything was new at one time.

Hah, this is a good point, but in my eyes lots of things that were new... never really grew up and were just deprecated and died.

For example, if someone based their setup on IronFunctions, they might have run into a bit of a painful situation, seeing as the project has been largely abandoned: https://github.com/iron-io/functions

Same for a database solution like Clusterpoint, the support for which just ended and you were left to migrate away to something else: https://github.com/clusterpoint

Ergo, I'd say that it's good for others to suffer the consequences (in a manner of speaking) of being trend setters and making wild bets on new and risky products and to just reap the benefits of their efforts later yourself, when things are safer. If a project has survived for a reasonably long time, it's a good indicator that it'll probably keep surviving in the future as well (there was a name for this, sadly can't recall what that was).