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While it's felt so keenly now, it has always been a part of tech. Some amazing stuff comes out, and thus everything most be amazing and you can't afford to miss out.
In practice, if the tech is truly that great, then you can catch up real quick after waiting to understand if it is great. But everyone FOMOs constantly.
I think it's different this time around. Tech pundits might write "If Apple doesn't have a VR/AR product in the next six months, they're falling behind," but this is the first time in my memory that it's been tech companies staring down consumers and small businesses and saying "If you don't adapt to this technology, you will lose your job."