Yes, many jobs are like this. Nothing wrong with it, it just depends on individual devs if they are okay with it or not. We are just 5 devs in our team and our

Yes, many jobs are like this. Nothing wrong with it, it just depends on individual devs if they are okay with it or not. We are just 5 devs in our team and our manager spends a good amount of time optimizing dev hours so he can get the most useful features out. If this means using external services then that choice always wins (assuming we can afford it).