[no_wizard]

when you say platform teams are dead, do you just mean the part of the team that mangages platform infrastructure?

My understanding with Platform teams is that its more than DevOps, its that a core set of engineers building a platform that the rest of engineering can safely (using that word in a relative sense here) build upon, e.g., I may as part of a platform team create core API services that are then exposed to product side teams to develop against, and we work with each other. This is essentially a productivity feature, because it allows for specialists to collaborate over their expertise, as opposed to having lots of full stack generalists managing their own slices of codebases, which results in shipping faster and higher quality product.