Does it look that much different if you exclude solutions that increase vendor lock-in?
Fwiw, you are almost certainly shooting yourself in the foot by avoiding vendor lockin at stages before 8 revenue figures per year. Your engineering takes longer, is more brittle, and because you’re only using 1 vendor actively, your solution is still vendor locked-in.
Love, ~ Guy who learned his lesson many times
removed Uber as its not 100% cloud (or at least wasn't in the past)
Writing service API integration code instead of code that interfaces directly with the technology that service is doing makes code quite brittle. If/when the vendor deprecates the service, introduces backwards incompatible changes, or abandons development of the product, you're left on the hook to engineer your way out of that problem. Often times that effort is equal to or greater than the effort of an in-house solution in the first place.
I had the same mentality as you until this happened to the SaaS product I work on for a few different services. Now at very least I try to make sure solutions are cloud agnostic.
Actually, we did once and we found that our abstraction was so tightly coupled to the underlying API that we had to remake it anyway. The core concepts between those APIs were just too different.
And I’ve had at least 2 cases where our attempt at being vendor agnostic made the integration completely fail and never work right. To the point the vendor told us “You’re holding it wrong, please stop”
With managed services it looks a world different.