From a maintenance perspective, the key to system longevity is to decouple interfaces and implementations. From a relevance perspective, the key to system longevity is to achieve a critical ecosystem mass.
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Second point: no particular feature or performance advantage of a system can last very long. But ecosystem gravity is extremely tough to replicate, and is the single most impactful element when it comes to *reducing time to solution* for end users (which is the end goal).
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Who would use Windows without the apps? Who would use Python without the libraries? It's not the features. It's the ecosystem.
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Wonder why Haskell never got popular. It has the ecosystem, it has the flexibility to change, etc.
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Who would use Windows?
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