A transistor and tube don't know anything about politics though.
You can't hold a referendum to eliminate the Early effect from a transistor, or Miller capacitance from a tube stage.
We can give an accurate and informative technical history of electronic parts, while completely avoiding discussions of mass adoption struggles, and vendors spreading FUD and whatever other fluff.
Sure, feel free to research how much resistance (no pun intended) there was over the mass adoption of transistors. the years of meetings and debates, the propoganda and fear tactics against transistors, the subjective claims over quality and safety of vacuum tubes.
This wasn't just some iterative upgrade like an RTX 2080 to a 3080.