How else do you attract venture capitalists and convince them to throw millions at you? You need all the buzzwords and the latest tech ;)
I remember my last chat with one of such guys. They insisted that the company wasn't up-to-date because we didn't run our app inside containers and didn't develop our own AI/ML systems...
How modern startups start out: Spend $50,000/month to run hundreds of microservices on a managed Kubernetes cluster