Comment by izacus

Look, the thing is - most of infra decisions are made by devops/devs that have a vested interest in this.

Either because they only know how to manage AWS instances (it was the hotness and thats what all the blogs and YT videos were about) and are now terrified from losing their jobs if the companies switch stacks. Or because they needed to put the new thing on their CV so they remain employable. Also maybe because they had to get that promotion and bonus for doing hard things and migrating things. Or because they were pressured into by bean counters which were pressured by the geniuses of Wall Street to move capex to opex.

In any case, this isn't by necessity these days. This is because, for a massive amount of engineers, that's the only way they know how to do things and after the gold rush of high pay, there's not many engineers around that are in it to learn or do things better. It's for the paycheck.

It is what it is. The actual reality of engineering the products well doesn't come close to the work being done by the people carrying that fancy superstar engineer title.