The answer is 1) many people at Amazon like me have inferior intellects and everyone knows it, so it’s harder to get a better job and 2) there are many services

The answer is 1) many people at Amazon like me have inferior intellects and everyone knows it, so it’s harder to get a better job and 2) there are many services that don’t have dozens of sev2s per day because ultimately you do own what you build. It’s a big reason why Lambda is used to heavily internally now - we cut out a class of operational scaling issues out by design.