Where would humanity be if there were no experiments, if we did not try to improve something that was good...
We would still be in a cave admiring the invention of the wheel 🙂
You need to experiment and research, but as seckorama wrote, take care to always leave a backup, because if you don't have it, the experiment can cost you a lot.
Example in my country, replacing the core system of a mobile operator. In the desire to create a better and more modern solution, they performed an upgrade, but without the possibility of restoring the databases to the old software, and caused a collapse, which has been going on for 5 months...