They take a process a small team could complete quickly with high quality and low cost maintenance and turn it into a process a huge team completes slowly with poor quality and high maintenance cost. Google can afford this because of huge profits from their advertising monopoly that they don’t know how to spend.

Go look at the manuals for IBM's Parallel Sysplex for mainframes and compare the simplicity of that to K8S for instance.

Or for that matter look at DCOM and the family of systems which Microsoft built around it which are truly atrocious but look like a model of simplicity compared to gRPC. (At least Don Box wrote a really great book about COM that showed people in the Microsoftsphere how to write good documentation.)

Or for that matter try doing something with AWS, Azure or some off-brand cloud and Google Cloud from zero (no account) and time yourself with a stopwatch. Well, it will be a stopwatch for AWS but you will probably need a calendar for Google Cloud.