That's where the human factor comes in though: boring tech makes for boring work makes for bored people, and bored people quit (or worse, introduce complexity for the sake of it).

LLMs are better at churning out boring stuff, and you can see a lot of bored people perk up in the age of AI - they can now fire up half a dozen agents so they can express their ideas and see them made reality, instead of leaving their ideas to be ideas because implementing them is boring.