* Product isn't that complicated at heart, so new hires busy themselves with complicating it, to justify their paychecks * Your easy to manage monolith is now

* Product isn't that complicated at heart, so new hires busy themselves with complicating it, to justify their paychecks * Your easy to manage monolith is now seventy-three microservices, in case you need to serve Google levels of traffic without any further engineering. You're hopelessly understaffed to keep the monstrosity stable, so now you've got to grow your engineering corps to Google scale.