I wonder if it just boils down to this: Exclusive reliance on any single tool by an entire field for a long enough time period will eventually lead to a proliferation of bad results.
More like exclusive reliance on a single tool will lead to a requirement for everybody to use it, even if they don't understand how to use it properly, which leads to both unintentional misuse (by experimenters who don't understand it) and the inability to catch intentional misuse (because adjudicators don't understand it either).
