There is always an alternative. Not looking for it is either intellectual laziness or willful manipulation. Margeret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK for a decade, was known among friends and enemies alike as “TINA” due to her usual insistence that “There Is No Alternative.”
As an IT leader, you are bombarded with requests to make specific technical decisions. Many of these are attempts to railroad you into choosing a technology that the team would like to play with and put on their CVs. When presented with a single option, ask for more. When one of the options is the obvious slam dunk, examine what has been left out of the presentation of the others. Binary selections are common in computer programming. In the real world, there are always many choices.