Spoken from a place of ignorance, as I've never worked at a large tech company: I wonder how much of this is a feature and not a bug? Undergoing a performance

Spoken from a place of ignorance, as I've never worked at a large tech company: I wonder how much of this is a feature and not a bug? Undergoing a performance review by an overbearing infra dude ever time you need a new server sounds hellish. So maybe the alternative is paying AWS seven figures a month for reasons nobody truly understands, but look at how productive everyone is!