I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this.

Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actual underlings.

> I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt.

100% agree.

> Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience.

Not my overall experience 30 years in the industry.

> They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

You'll always be asked to do more with less, at least, that's my own experience.