There is technology in every sport and the champion of the day is usually the one who first masters the new technology.
But most sports with smart administration will consider the ramifications of the technology the minute it comes onto the market and make a simple choice: permit or do not permit.
FINA have long been the most hopeless administration among the global sports, in my opinion (having first worked at an Olympic swimming trials in 1972 and plenty since).
You do not allow 109 world records and THEN decide whether you should permit the technology to be in your sport.
When John Carlos (and Lee Evans) ran with the brush spikes in 1968 (at the US Olympic Trials I believe) and ran what was then stupid fast times (was it 19.7h for 200m - breaking Tommie Smith’s WR by 0.3), the IAAF stepped straight in and refused to ratify the time as any kind of a record, much less a world record, because the federation felt the technology was going to distort the progress of the sport.
Now, the IAAF may have been wrong to ban the new spike technology, but they at least put the brakes on before the train became a runaway…and if nothing else it bought the sport times to reflect at length on the topic. FINA typically were left on the blocks - 40 years behind the IAAF.