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Fortunate are you to have worked with people to give you such a point of view.
Lie?
Reduced time to market is incredibly valuable. Current client base is well in its millions. Ability to test to few and roll out to many instantly is invaluable. You no longer have to hire competent software developers who understand all patterns and practices to make scalable code and infrastructure. Just need them to work on a particular unit or function.
The thing which scares me is, some of these companies are decades of years old, hundreds. How long has AWS/GCP/Azure abstractions been around for? How quick are we to graveyard some of these platforms. Quite. A lot quicker than you can lift, shift and rewrite your solution to elsewhere.
Personally I just like using it as banal objection to win arguments.
Oh boy. I'll put that down for my "thing I don't think I wanted to know" of the day.
Completely agree, your solution is more clear.
Just like you also don't see them saying "Thanks to PwC for developing our software."
If you forced employee to publish on a wiki, it would feel far too much like work. Having it on a privately owned public forum gives a sense of personal ownership and development.
Why? Out of things to do? Wanted to look productive?