That's a fair point and I can totally relate to it. There's a toxic relationship of startups always trying to one up each other to attract more attention as a g

That's a fair point and I can totally relate to it. There's a toxic relationship of startups always trying to one up each other to attract more attention as a great place to work and in general tech stack is just another tool on this fight. As a consequence workers are pushed to the same mindset, where fixing a problem with 10 microservices and a dozen AWS services is the expected and if you prove you can solve the same problem with a single machine running a cronjob with no external dependencies you're the weird one.