entrenchment

Maybe you could say the problem is simply entrenchment.

The main result from this is to help maintain the entrenchment of the status quo which hurts overall innovation.

The solution to the entrenchment that comes, in time, to every free market, is more free market.

Look to the multi-decade history of SQL and C++/C and that's the depth of entrenchment you're looking at for Javascript.

Coming back to the beginning, the two-party system is already biased towards entrenchment, effectively barring small upstarts from entering politics.

And the result of that is a firm entrenchment in belief, so you get that homogeneity.

Similar language entrenchment on the scale of Javascript would be something like SQL and C++.

In some individuals is expressed as a rejection of Y leading to entrenchment in X.

A hierarchical system, like a tree, has vulnerabilities and entrenchment in each root or branch.

Apple wants more entrenchment; to make it even harder to switch to something else.

People who don't use it will find significant entrenchment in what they already have.

With the entrenchment of WP in CMS space, OP is unlikely to unseat WP by rewriting the WP with the best possible code quality.

You take the part of being an ISP that's basically a "natural monopoly" (because of extremely high entrance costs and entrenchment) and operate it like a public good, while allowing the private sector innovate and compete over those lines.

My problem with "The System" is that the influence of money (and other hidden factors) is hushed under the table, and thus, in the vein of the previously mentioned free market principles, self-regulation ceases to work, and you have entrenchment.

Entrenchment is, to unfettered capitalism, what the tragedy of the commons is to libertarianism.