I'm sorry, but it is laughable to imply that a team of developers each making 200k a year can't build a stable product. It also isn't like the FAANGs of the world don't have downtime themselves.
I’m in industrial control and the move fast and break things never ending stream of updates subscription software mentality has taken hold of the big players like Rockwell and Schneider.
I was going to say the multiple failures at high profile cloud systems just in the last year is enough to prove that all the FAANG engineers in the world won’t save you.
Mediocre software is eating the world