It also doesn't help that non-technical stakeholders sometimes want a say in a tech stack conversation as well. I've been at more than one company where either the product team or the acquiring firm wanted us to migrate away from a tried and true Rails setup to a fullstack JS platform simply because they either wanted the UI development flexibility or to not have to hire Ruby devs.

Non-technical MBA's seem to have a hard time grasping that a JS-only platform is not a panacea and comes with serious tradeoffs.