And yet, many companies today are spinning up full stack teams, asking them to be experts from user interviewing to database design, architecture, hosting, devops, API management, data product, and also keep an eye on GDPR compliance.

I see dozens of teams that are doing cloud to the wazoo when really they need to just be told “we’ll load your routes from main.py, build your assets in /static, you need a DB click the button to provision it”.

It boggles the mind that so many teams are reinventing the wheel a million times over to publish their APIs, register AWS accounts, setup CI, decide on ECS vs Lamda, etc.

Your middle paragraph sounds amazing but it works great until it doesn’t.

That’s pretty much the answer. The simple stuff has already been tried and there’s already some reason why we can’t just make XYZ simpler.

This sort of activity has been the source of income for a very large number of people. You can't really fault them for trying to extend that gravy train's run.

Who is productizing this type of boilerplate?