I don't take "unicorn scale" to mean "stable, reliable, and dependable" in the context of the original post. You seem to be a reasonable person that values buil

I don't take "unicorn scale" to mean "stable, reliable, and dependable" in the context of the original post. You seem to be a reasonable person that values building "stable, reliable, and dependable" systems. There is another segment of the tech world that have used the wrong tools and techniques for their domain based on experiences shared by the largest companies. This is often resume-driven development. It results in a lot of toil and rework for those maintaining those systems. The challenge is that assessing outcomes is very contextual. There are teams that will be successful with a completely overengineered system built with what seemed like an unrealistic toolkit, and there will be teams that fail with an overengineered system and seemingly better toolset and team. For example, I'm aware of pharma teams using K8s and Svelte for small apps when a Django or .NET app would be sufficient.