I shudder to think at the wake of destruction left behind by all these freelancers that come in, implement a brand new service in their own language of choice w

I shudder to think at the wake of destruction left behind by all these freelancers that come in, implement a brand new service in their own language of choice without much regard to the tooling and ecosystem that the rest of the company is invested in, and then bounce, leaving everyone else to figure out how to support it in the future. As an EM that strikes me as a very bad model to engage with contractors on, I'm surprised that it's such a common gig for you. But hey, more power to you, it must be fun getting to do a lot greenfield projects without the long-term responsibility.