[dt3ft]

Because Microsoft, Google and Amazon, to name a few, sell the story of the cloud to decision makers who can sign a subscription contract. Developers go with the flow, not daring to question the setup. Meanwhile, they host their own servers on a r-pi and ship sideprojects. Devs are not at fault here. It’s the management.

[stavros]

Having been on both sides, nope, it's 100% the devs pushing for this. I've had innumerable discussions trying to convince developers to simplify things, but their reaction was basically "how can we go against best practice?! Unthinkable!". It was a huge uphill battle.

Meanwhile, management didn't have an opinion, it was up to the teams to architect things how they liked, and they liked sprawling microservice everything, because they wanted to own 100% of their code, any other concern be damned.