Because change and the hope of progress is quite literally evil* and all too easily ends up with 'Tentacles, tentacles everywhere!'. On top of that Chaos takes special efforts to smash or corrupt the shit out attempts to do this.
Despite this, there has been technological improvements, but they are done very slowly and carefully with decades of review and testing to make sure they're not trojan horses, and everyone imvolved 100% believes that they aren't progressing anything, but regressing closer towards a mythical golden age. This is how the Adeptus Mechanicus manages in a universe as screwed up as 40K, by believing that what they're doing isn't actually change.
* when the four great metaphysical evils are the urge to harm, giving into despair, the desire for pleasure, and the desire to change things, that tells you something. One of these is not like the other to a modernist, but is to an anti-modernist.
Generally, the hypertech components are incredibly hard to make and might as well be magic as far as the Adeptus Mechanicus is concerned, seeing as they're usually designed by post-human intelligences or are literally made by STCs.
It isn't. Most but not all technology is derived from STC produced equipment, but much of it is black box copies of black box of monkey copies of something an STC made ten thousand years ago that the Imperium has no STC or STC printout for.
An STC print out is a very specific thing. It's not the name for a design pattern. An STC print out is a very big deal, as it's the manufacturing instructions created by a hypettech AI specifically tailored for how an idiot can make one specific instance of a category of object given a certain set of material inputs.
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