While there is much to worry about over centralization, there are benefits to at least trying if you can consolidate n-m efforts when n is the total number effo

While there is much to worry about over centralization, there are benefits to at least trying if you can consolidate n-m efforts when n is the total number efforts using a queue and m are the snowflakes. It all depends on organization size and whether some costs can be amortized. Everyone having specialized everything is exceptionally expensive at scale. Here, the key is tower of babel. What Tim should have done is kick start the effort with one or two teams, then organically grown it by reducing operational burden for new teams. The mistake here is trying to globally optimize rather than seeking different vertical consolidation. By the way, this is why Amazon has so many services.