I think part of the problem is that there is no clear "right tool for the job" for many jobs. There are many that will work just fine. Every author and podcaster who wants to project a veneer of pragmatism will sprinkle "the right tool for the job" truisms and call it good, but IMO that's just a hand-wavy placeholder for whatever they happen to be into at the moment. Which is fine, but to me it somewhat disingenuously dismisses the fact that it's still largely a subjective choice in many situations.