The tools teams standardize on outlast the reasons they chose them.

A team picks a tool for a specific reason: it was the fastest option, a colleague recommended it, it happened to be available at the time.

Years later, the tool is still in use, deeply embedded in workflows and habits, long after the original reason for choosing it has stopped being relevant or even remembered.

Standardization has a way of outliving its own justification. That's not always a problem, but it's worth noticing when nobody can quite explain why a tool is still the default.