I worked at a startup where the CTO was the impressionable junior and it caused all of those issues you described and more. I ended up leaving when I decided I

I worked at a startup where the CTO was the impressionable junior and it caused all of those issues you described and more. I ended up leaving when I decided I shouldn't be having panic attacks in the middle of the night due to ridiculously tight deadlines that I couldn't meet because of the overhead introduced by k8s and microservices.