I don't mind scale. I mind the bureaucracy and promotion-driven-development that comes with working in a bloated engineering org.
Many companies have products that operate at “scale”. They manage to do so with pretty boring techniques (sharding, autoscaling) and technologies (postgres, cloud storage).
Because of the insane blog driven tech culture, many of these teams get questioned by clueless leadership (who read these blogs) and ask why the company isn’t using cassandra / some other hot technology. And it always causes much consternation and wastage.
I don't mind the scale, I like it. I don't like having to fend off questions and complaints why we aren't deploying the latest shiny new thing in our core this week.