These open source projects you talk about were developed by profit seeking enterprises for solving complex distributed systems problems at scale.
Because they chose to make them open-source (not out of altruistic motives but out of the same profit seeking perfectly good business motives), these solo developers (who are also profit seeking) can benefit from those projects for free and can afford to build to serve lot more users than they would be able to otherwise.
I don't get the entitled attitude of the author. If he wants a
'simple' system by his standards, he can build one easily enough with the modern tools like golang, node.js and rust.
Btw, the web development tools were never simpler than today to operate a safe and secure production web application to serve any number of users. I'm saying this with about two decades of experience doing the same.
Because they chose to make them open-source (not out of altruistic motives but out of the same profit seeking perfectly good business motives), these solo developers (who are also profit seeking) can benefit from those projects for free and can afford to build to serve lot more users than they would be able to otherwise.
I don't get the entitled attitude of the author. If he wants a 'simple' system by his standards, he can build one easily enough with the modern tools like golang, node.js and rust.
Btw, the web development tools were never simpler than today to operate a safe and secure production web application to serve any number of users. I'm saying this with about two decades of experience doing the same.