Atlas is plain robbery. I see companies paying 600K USD/month on a few clusters, mostly used for testing. The problem is they got locked into this, by doing a huge migration of their apps and switching to a different tech would easily take 2 to 5 years.
Would a company paying 600k per month not also be able to employ a couple of devs to improve the situation? Sure, effort is required, but with the right people they could save a ton and have a very good ROI.
I think it's just more complicated than that. No hostage situation, just good old incentives.
