IMHO the problem is that with reusing your scale I typically see:

  Management that don't really understand tech and is afraid to try things
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  THE IDEAL
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  Management that don't really understand business (and sometimes tech too) and is focused on tech fashion

Surprise the ideal is hard because it requires both tech and business experience to recognize how best practices and new tech could bring value in a specific context. The job is to make clients happy by solving their problems, with apps that are nice to use, bug free, performant, maintainable, evolvable, with a usually short time to market and obviously for the best cost. Sometimes that equation is solved with a complex stack, architecture and practices with hundreds of engineers, and sometimes with a few web pages, inlined CSS, a bit of vanilla JS, and a solo dev.