Comment by miki123211

And Chrome doesn't even need to support millions (billions) of users on a single, coherent "system". There's no scaling, it's just people running it on their computers and phones.

I suspect the vast majority of Shopify engineers never touch the core Shopify experience, but work on the long tail of invisible things that are nevertheless considered important. I'm talking along the lines of "direct integration with bank X for UPI in India to save 0.3% on payment costs in scenario Y."