Its not just engineers that want to build complex infrastructure though. This a massive misconception and shifting the blame to 'nerdy engineers' doing 'nerdy'

Its not just engineers that want to build complex infrastructure though. This a massive misconception and shifting the blame to 'nerdy engineers' doing 'nerdy' stuff instead of solving real problems. Startup that worked at raised whole bunch of money and hired tons of engineers. They were all tasked to "build something big". eg: it was expected of data engineers to setup "big data architecture" with complex data-lakes, job schedulers , spark clusters, streaming jobs and all sorts of weird stuff. No one really understood why we are building all this stuff but we never got real answers from the management.