Wonder if VCs and giant companies encourage overhiring and bloat in their (open source) products to promote first party hosting while pretending to be self host

Wonder if VCs and giant companies encourage overhiring and bloat in their (open source) products to promote first party hosting while pretending to be self hostable. Seen one product needing Docker and Auth0 to self host, but two products have leapfrogged it using plaintext+git.