I’m fine with this trend.

Servers aren’t free and engineers aren’t cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.

If you’re not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.

Servers aren’t free but it’s damn cheap if you don’t bloat up your backend

And the way you don’t bloat your backend?

Expensive engineers

Throwing more bodies at a situation does NOT solve the situation faster, seriously, this shit is the most remedial, 101-level shit in pretty much any field where man-hours are a measuring metric.

That’s not what I said or even remotely implied.

If you want a good back end that isn’t bloated you can’t use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they’re doing.

It’s a fight I’m constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.

These contractors weren’t paid to care - I don’t blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps