Comment by weli

> That seems unlikely to me, but I might be surprised.

I'm pretty sure you've hit the nail on the head. Especially now with LLM's you'd be surprised of how many people are running full on production apps that are coded solely by an agent, deployed with a mix of random providers (supabase + fly.io + whatever) and have no clue about what Kafka is. They are never going to ask for it because... they don't know they can, and why they should. They ask an agent "connect to stripe" and the agent codes your typical webhook ingestion mechanism, never proposes advocating for an event polling loop. Whenever there is a bug they will tell the agent to fix it and the agent will just write a webhook deduplication mechanism and that's it. You'd be surprised how little supposedly technical people care about the current state of technologies.

PS: Thanks for the feedback on the writing.