Of course, this should have been the approach from the beginning, and it boggles my mind why people pick technologies or paradigms without considering their requirements and the tradeoffs of their technical decisions.

I think part of it is because of the hype machine, where people only talk about how awesome things are that they invented, instead of talking about what problems it solves, what it doesn’t solve, and what its tradeoffs are. If you are reading something to evaluate a technology and it doesn’t talk about all three of those things, discard what you’re reading, because it will mislead you.