> Maybe there's a good reason to have as many services as they do.

Or maybe we're in a tech bubble and if you want engineers, you have to acquiesce to their demands of working with the latest shiny tools while they create mountains of technical debt, because if you don't, they'll just go to another startup that allows that behavior, or they'll go twiddle their thumbs at a FAANG while banking $300k+ total comp for their 5-years of experience.

I'm not trying to say one could replicate this business with a few scripts, but it sure as hell doesn't need a service mesh that looks like a mutated SARS-CoV3.