You've seen the xkcd chart about automating and the cost/reward for varying numbers of repetitions per day? I think the concept that big businesses are behemoth

You've seen the xkcd chart about automating and the cost/reward for varying numbers of repetitions per day? I think the concept that big businesses are behemoths stems from a fundamental understanding of what each type of business does each day. As an arbitrary example, I think if we compare the number of employees onboarded vs the number of new applications shipped, small companies/startups and enterprises are polar opposites. My experience with startups is that you end up with a new web service for every 2-4 people (wholly anecdotal) you onboard as developers. For that kind of company, it makes sense to optimize shipping new web services; you do it a lot! For an Enterprise, you might onboard 100 developers just to maintain and develop existing systems. Writing new frameworks to make building apps easier doesn't make much sense; many of your developers are working on an existing system that would be expensive to port to a new framework. Meantime, your HR department is drowning trying to onboard 20 people a week. Wasting money shipping this listing is fine; they did it once. This was released in 2013, and I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out this, or some small bastardization of this, is still running as a production page for Prudence. The money they wasted, amortized over 6 years, is nothing compared to what I've seen startups waste in productivity while new hires wait for laptops, credentials, access, someone to explain some legacy crap that everyone had to deal with, etc.