Some people may not like to carry over the analogy into non-scientific aspects of our life, and that is fine. If the concept is not useful, then of course you should not use it. I speak only for myself when I say that it has helped me understand many things. Whether in the sciences, or in other aspects of our lives, paradigm shifts seem to have some common characteristics. Things do change, and we have to adjust to that change.
Paradigm shifts can be bad.
Society needs quite a bit of stability, so that it can depend on its view of the world. Constant shifts in major elements of our paradigm would make our lives very difficult. Paradigm shifts often come from the young. Older people have more to conserve. They have more of investment, financial and psychological, in their paradigm.