It's usually the opposite: You might not want to go to prod with something like this on an SMB scale where you have little resources to navigate tech debt.
On a Github scale where you have more engineers available, it's often worth it to adopt cutting-edge alpha/beta software for their novel features, as you generally also have more expertise/mechanisms to ensure stability of the overall product and run less risk of being suffocated in tech debt.
Fyi: that quote has been there for a while.