They had plenty of time to adopt the theory of categories. They had Eilenberg, then Cartan, then Grothendieck. Did they feel that they have established their approach already, that it's too late to go back and start anew?

I have my very-very general answer: *World* is *Chaos*, *Mathematics* is a *Jungle*, Bourbaki was a nice *fluke*, but no fluke can last forever, no fluke can overtake Chaos and Jungle. I'd still like to have a much more complete picture.