I don't think the industry was supposed to create this magic environment where everybody gets to be a hacker and have good, artistic fun programming. Unfortunately it seems like integrating with as many ready-made solutions as possible is a pragmatic business decision. It doesn't come free, obviously, since we give up a lot of control to vendors and sometimes judging about system performance is hard because of how many things outside of our control are there, and programmers don't get enjoy themselves at all, but such are the economics of this market.

I hate it. But I also don't know if we can do anything about it. Like, for example the company I work at heavily uses AWS Lambda to build mobile app backends and, as a backend developer there, I feel very uneasy about how little I understand and control the system running our critical business logic. But it works well enough and the money savings are amazing when compared to using dedicated hardware, so I can't really make a good point why we shouldn't be doing it.

Sometimes I wonder if other professions get to have fun. Maybe I should explore design to scratch that artistic itch somehow.