God so much this. I see entire teams of developers who are, theoretically, software engineers. Yet their entire day is just configuring AWS. Endless meetings with endless acronyms and endless complexity to solve problems that have been solved for 20 years, but instead of focusing on the metal and first principles, the entire architecture is lost in a sea of "cloud services" that require multiple certifications to even begin to understand. All of this in service of an application load that could easily be handled with a few big servers.