I don't doubt that the author has seen all kinds of oddness while contracting, but I think they have seriously mis-diagnosed some or all of the problem. I mean

I don't doubt that the author has seen all kinds of oddness while contracting, but I think they have seriously mis-diagnosed some or all of the problem. I mean, sure, it would be really nice to pour concrete and wait for it to thoroughly completely and totally dry before starting to build a house on it. And any builder that did that would be run out of business by those builders that start building as soon as the surface level dries, and therefore finishes weeks earlier. So the metaphor doesn't even work as a metaphor, let alone in practice. Because in practice, the companies that spent the time to get everything lined up perfectly before launching were beaten to market by companies that iterated. They started with a skateboard, upgraded to a bicycle, at some point added a motor, and later some seats, and so on, with revenue from customers paying for the upgrades. The bit about lockin and high expenses with server less seemed extra-strange to me, given that my company, 22 years in, replaced VMs in a datacenter with AWS serverless stacks and cut costs dramatically. Sure, we couldn't easily migrate away from AWS if we wanted to, but... I don't know if you've noticed, but AWS seems to be growing, not shrinking. Amazon is delivering extraordinary value for a wide variety of use cases, and choosing an inferior tech stack to avoid lock-in seems really, really dumb. Anyway, bizarre misguided rant, IMO.