Senior here. Where I work, everyone has the authority of the position below them. The middle management above my team decides language, framework, and architecture. They were hired from much larger companies, so naturally they just know more. I think our 10mil/yr company doesn't need the complexity of a 100mil/yr solution because we're not Amazon and we're never going to be Amazon. But, we now we have dozens of lambda functions in multiple languages with multiple configs designed in different ways deploying from multiple processes from multiple repositories. Our team is having a hard time changing and fixing anything because the cognitive overhead nears the limit of human capability. I was told "off the record" its because we didn't execute their vision the right way.

I'm starting to think I work in a toxic environment.