"Can we render some rental listings?" "No, we need to first design a completely new programming language, a new compiler to compile the new language into universal low-level byte code that can be translated by LLVM to run on 3 different platforms."

"Can we use MySQL for the rental listings? I mean there are only so many apartments in the world" "Nooooooo.....We need to design our own storage system that can run on all Cloud vendors and then design our own database on top of it, and a new generic caching system that beats Redis by 1% on this particular job"

Exactly the result of overpaying overqualified people to do something basic and they end up over-engineering everything to make themselves look good.