The reality is that most front-ends at most companies don't require that level of engineering. Sure if you work at Netflix or Facebook, there may be a lot of "r

The reality is that most front-ends at most companies don't require that level of engineering. Sure if you work at Netflix or Facebook, there may be a lot of "real engineering" going on but most people don't work at those companies. But the guys at these small companies want to feel special, so they reach for whatever the big guys are doing and try to implement it, regardless of need. The same thing happens with (insert your domain here). Like, we have a single webstore with 10k customers, we need a Kubernetes cluster etc etc because Google does it.