Ditto for engineers. At the large tech company where I work, I've tried to push new ways of doing things and new technologies my whole career. It's extremely difficult.
There's a whole cadre of grand poobah type senior technical personnel that have always done things in a certain way that worked for them. They will NOT change or give new technologies a chance unless they've already been adopted by our competitors and we're obviously behind the technology curve.
Never underestimate the stubbornness and close mindedness of the senior technical community that sits in judgement of their peers and junior staff members. The majority are threatened by new ideas. I've been fighting it myself for many years now.
I know all about stubborn technical staff. I have been battling a ridiculous standard and I have written a memo explaining how the standard will make it impossible for a system to actually work. The committee reviewers agreed with me, but the senior member who wrote the standard refuses to change it. That senior member just retired and the standards committee is busy rewriting the troublesome standard. They just can’t agree about what it should be. We adjusted our system so it works and provided the committee with the results and told them that this should fall within the acceptable range for the new specification. Meanwhile we are in limbo for probably a year.